Therapist Characteristics and the Outcome of Treatment in Schizophrenia

Psychotherapeutic Management Techniques in the Treatment of Outpatients With Schizophrenia

“…Despite increased attention to <level~ opment and implementation of services for outpatients with schizophrenia, little has been written about training caseworkers and other mental health workers in basic strategies for interacting with these patients (1,2). Specific and sometimes counterintuitive techniques are needed to work successfully with patients with schizophrenia (3,4), and, as May (5) suggested, clinicians may need to make a distinction between formal psychotherapy and "what is therapeutic for the psyche. "…”

Therapist Ratings of Achievement of Objectives in Psychotherapy With Acute Schizophrenics*

“…May (1974) presents a critical review of the many studies that have investigated this distinction. A recent report by Tuma et al (1978) suggests that as yet unidentified characteristics of therapists may be related to the outcome of psychotherapy in conjunction with ataraxic drugs.…”