Baseline Patient Characteristics Predicting Outcome and Attrition in Cognitive Therapy for Social Phobia: Results from a Large Multicentre Trial

Abstract

Personality, self-esteem, shame, attachment style and interpersonal problems do not or only marginally moderate the effects of interventions in CT of social phobia. Symptom severity and comorbid diagnoses might affect treatment outcome negatively. Beyond these two factors, most patients share a similar likelihood of treatment success when treated according to the manual by Clark and Wells. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Associations between socioeconomic status and psychological therapy outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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Emotion suppression, not reappraisal, predicts psychotherapy outcome

“…There is evidence highlighting the importance of several personality traits for achieving successful psychotherapy outcome (e.g., attachment style, coping style, psychological mindedness, motivation). However, most candidate character traits receive mixed results over several studies (e.g., Hoyer et al, 2014;Newman, Crits-Christoph, Connolly Gibbons, & Erickson, 2006). Emotion regulation has been discussed repeatedly in the context of several mental disorders, especially with regard to its role in their development and maintenance.…”

Moderators and predictors of outcome in metacognitive and cognitive behavioural therapy for co‐morbid anxiety disorders

“…The same mixed results can be seen for co-morbidity and personality problems with some studies finding associations with outcome (Bohart & Wade, 2013;Goddard, Wingrove, & Moran, 2015), whereas other studies do not (Hoffart et al, 2015). Thus, several authors conclude that for SAD (Eskildsen, Hougaard, & Rosenberg, 2010;Hoyer et al, 2016), PD/A (Porter & Chambless, 2015), and PTSD (Ehlers et al, 2013), few pretreatment variables give consistent information about treatment outcome. Consequently, the specific results regarding predictors and moderators are inconclusive.…”