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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2012 Sep;49(3):303-16.
doi: 10.1037/a0027694.

Supportive-expressive dynamic psychotherapy in the community mental health system: a pilot effectiveness trial for the treatment of depression

Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons  1 , Sarah M Thompson, Kelli Scott, Lindsay A Schauble, Tessa Mooney, Donald Thompson, Patricia Green, Mary Jo MacArthur, Paul Crits-Christoph
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Supportive-expressive dynamic psychotherapy in the community mental health system: a pilot effectiveness trial for the treatment of depression

Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons et al. Psychotherapy (Chic). 2012 Sep.

Abstract

The goal of the current article is to present the results of a randomized pilot investigation of a brief dynamic psychotherapy compared with treatment-as-usual (TAU) in the treatment of moderate-to-severe depression in the community mental health system. Forty patients seeking services for moderate-to-severe depression in the community mental health system were randomized to 12 weeks of psychotherapy, with either a community therapist trained in brief dynamic psychotherapy or a TAU therapist. Results indicated that blind judges could discriminate the dynamic sessions from the TAU sessions on adherence to dynamic interventions. The results indicate moderate-to-large effect sizes in favor of the dynamic psychotherapy over the TAU therapy in the treatment of depression. The Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale-24 showed that 50% of patients treated with dynamic therapy moved into a normative range compared with only 29% of patients treated with TAU.

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Supportive expressive dynamic psychotherapy versus treatment as usual recruitment flow diagram.
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