Indications for Psychotherapy in a Psychiatric Clinic Population

Abstract

As a part of a larger project of trying to differentiate the therapies for inpatients in a psychiatric clinic, we have made a half year’s survey of the patients’ needs for short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Our findings point to less than 10 % of the inpatients being able to profit from this kind of therapy. These findings and their implications are discussed briefly.

Suitability for brief dynamic psychotherapy: psychodynamic variables as predictors of outcome

“…Intraclass correlations (ICC), averaged over 4 raters, ICC (3.4) (19), ranged from 0.77 to 0.83 (20). The unit of analysis was the mean score of 4 clinicians (21), who participated in the project all through the 10 years.a Comparable reliability and aspects of predictive validity of the criteria have been established in several other studies as well (12, [22][23][24].…”