Do mental health patients learn what their cognitive-behaviour therapists think they do?
- Purpose: The acquisition of skills is essential to the conceptualization of cognitive-behavioural therapy. Yet, what experiences are encountered and what skills actually learned during therapy, and whether patients and therapists have concurrent views hereof, remains poorly understood. Method: An explorative pilot study with semi-structured, corresponding interview guides was conducted. Pilot data from our outpatient unit were transcribed and content-analyzed following current guidelines. Results: The responses of 18 participants (patients and their psychotherapists) were assigned to six main categories. Educational and cognitive aspects were mentioned most frequently and consistently by both groups. Having learned Behavioural alternatives attained the second highest agreement between perspectives. Conclusions: Patients and therapists valued CBT as an opportunity to learn new skills, which is an important prerequisite also for the maintenance of therapeutic change. We discuss limitations to generalizability but also theoretical andPurpose: The acquisition of skills is essential to the conceptualization of cognitive-behavioural therapy. Yet, what experiences are encountered and what skills actually learned during therapy, and whether patients and therapists have concurrent views hereof, remains poorly understood. Method: An explorative pilot study with semi-structured, corresponding interview guides was conducted. Pilot data from our outpatient unit were transcribed and content-analyzed following current guidelines. Results: The responses of 18 participants (patients and their psychotherapists) were assigned to six main categories. Educational and cognitive aspects were mentioned most frequently and consistently by both groups. Having learned Behavioural alternatives attained the second highest agreement between perspectives. Conclusions: Patients and therapists valued CBT as an opportunity to learn new skills, which is an important prerequisite also for the maintenance of therapeutic change. We discuss limitations to generalizability but also theoretical and therapy implications.…
| Author details: | Franziska KühneORCiDGND, Hannah Lesser, Franziska Petri, Florian WeckORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1527598 |
| ISSN: | 1748-2631 |
| ISSN: | 1748-2623 |
| Title of parent work (English): | International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being |
| Subtitle (English): | A short report on qualitative interviews comparing perspectives |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/10/05 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2019/01/16 |
| Tag: | cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT); interview study; learning; psychotherapy; skills |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Funding number: | PA 2018_75 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| DDC classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 490 |
