Patient Motivation as a Predictor of Process and Outcome in Psychotherapy
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 33 (1-2) , 87-97
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287417
Abstract
The effect of the patient''s level of motivation upon process and outcome in short-term psychotherapy was studied. Shy, anxious and depressed male college students [18] received up to 25 sessions of therapy with experienced professional therapists. Analyses of audiotaped samples from 4 therapy sessions indicated that motivation was a good predictor of a patient''s behavior in therapy. Apparently the patient''s level of motivation may influence the therapist''s behavior during treatment. Ratings of motivation significantly predicted both the therapist''s and the clinician''s ratings of overall improvement, but not the patient''s rating of overall improvement or the residual maladjustment scores derived from the MMPI [Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory].This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: