TREATMENT OUTCOMES
I. Outcomes arranged by various variables, including effect upon clients and:
a. Patient’s traits
b. Patient’s diagnosis
c. Treatment milieu
II. Outcomes related to patient traits
a. Lower social classes less likely to complete treatment
b. Higher intelligence patients had more positive treatment outcomes
c. Age and sex had no effect on treatment outcome although geriatric
patients generally had less favorable outcomes than other age groups
III. Outcomes related to patient’s diagnosis
a. Patients that had multiple diagnoses generally stayed in treatment longer
IV. Outcomes related to treatment milieu
a. Ethnically matched patient with therapist generally had more positive outcomes, although with ethnically
sensitive therapists there was no difference
b. The greater the therapist’s empathy the more positive the outcome
c. Congruent therapist/counselor expectations produced more positive treatment outcomes
d. Positive patient outcome was more related to incongruent therapist/patient locus of control as opposed to
therapist/patient locus of control match
e. Therapist/patient matches with respect to dogmatic style, complex cognitive processing style vs. non-discriminating
style, value systems, therapist self-disclosure, empathy, respect, maturity, emotional adjustment, and genuiness had
more positive outcomes than incongruous matches
f. With respect to mode of therapy, therapy that is integrative and eclectic tends to have the most positive outcome
I. Outcomes arranged by various variables, including effect upon clients and:
a. Patient’s traits
b. Patient’s diagnosis
c. Treatment milieu
II. Outcomes related to patient traits
a. Lower social classes less likely to complete treatment
b. Higher intelligence patients had more positive treatment outcomes
c. Age and sex had no effect on treatment outcome although geriatric
patients generally had less favorable outcomes than other age groups
III. Outcomes related to patient’s diagnosis
a. Patients that had multiple diagnoses generally stayed in treatment longer
IV. Outcomes related to treatment milieu
a. Ethnically matched patient with therapist generally had more positive outcomes, although with ethnically
sensitive therapists there was no difference
b. The greater the therapist’s empathy the more positive the outcome
c. Congruent therapist/counselor expectations produced more positive treatment outcomes
d. Positive patient outcome was more related to incongruent therapist/patient locus of control as opposed to
therapist/patient locus of control match
e. Therapist/patient matches with respect to dogmatic style, complex cognitive processing style vs. non-discriminating
style, value systems, therapist self-disclosure, empathy, respect, maturity, emotional adjustment, and genuiness had
more positive outcomes than incongruous matches
f. With respect to mode of therapy, therapy that is integrative and eclectic tends to have the most positive outcome