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How Do Patients Perceive Behavioural Psychotherapy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Geoff Shepherd
Geoff Shepherd
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
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How patients perceive behavioural psychotherapy and what they consider to be the important components and processes involved remain largely a matter for speculation and clinical impression. This is unfortunate since subjective reports constitute a unique source of information and their investigation might yield some valuable insights into the therapeutic process. For example, it could help clarify the role of ‘non-specific’ factors in treatment (Gelder et al., 1973), it might also shed some light on the importance of attributions in behaviour change (Davison and Valins, 1969). With these considerations in mind we decided to ask a group of patients who had improved following a course of behavioural psychotherapy a few simple questions about why they thought this change had occurred.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , September 1975 , pp. 69 - 70
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1975

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