Feedback and Psychotherapeutic Competencies

Goethe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: No feedback; Behavioral: Feedback after every fourth session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01986517

Feedback-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the current study is to examine the influence of feedback on psychotherapeutic competency. The present randomized controlled study compares a feedback condition with a non-feedback condition. Therapists in the feedback condition receive feedback after every fourth session. The feedback is given by two trained and independent raters. The raters are licenced and experienced psychotherapists. Therapists in the non-feedback condition receive no feedback during the psychotherapy.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Therapists

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having successfully completed the interim audit
• Having started to treat ambulant patients
• Remaining at least 6 month in the ambulance

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients

Inclusion Criteria:

• Meeting ICD 10 criteria for a mental disorder
• Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Currently in psychotherapy
• Suicidal tendency
• Clinical diagnosis of alcohol or drug addiction, acute schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder
• Clinical diagnosis of personality disorder cluster A (odd disorders) and B (dramatic, emotional or erratic)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Therapists assigned to this group will receive standardized feedback on their psychotherapeutic competency after every fourth treatment session with a patient for a period of 20 therapy sessions. The feedback will be given by two experienced raters who are licensed as psychological psychotherapists.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Feedback after every fourth session

No feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Therapists assigned to this group will receive no feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: No feedback