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Goal Consensus and Collaboration

This meta-analysis examined 15 studies with 1,302 patients and found a moderate effect size of 0.34 indicating better psychotherapy outcomes when patients and therapists agree on treatment goals and how to achieve them. A separate meta-analysis of 19 studies with 2,260 patients found a correlation of 0.33, suggesting considerable enhancement of outcomes when patients and therapists collaborate cooperatively. The article discusses therapeutic practices informed by these findings on the importance of goal consensus and collaboration.

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Goal Consensus and Collaboration

This meta-analysis examined 15 studies with 1,302 patients and found a moderate effect size of 0.34 indicating better psychotherapy outcomes when patients and therapists agree on treatment goals and how to achieve them. A separate meta-analysis of 19 studies with 2,260 patients found a correlation of 0.33, suggesting considerable enhancement of outcomes when patients and therapists collaborate cooperatively. The article discusses therapeutic practices informed by these findings on the importance of goal consensus and collaboration.

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Goal consensus and collaboration.

By Tryon, Georgiana Shick; Winograd, Greta


Psychotherapy, Vol 48(1), Mar 2011, 50-57.

Abstract This article updates our previous article in this journal (Tryon & Winograd, 2001) by examining via meta-analyses results of recent studies, published from 2000 through 2009, that relate goal consensus and collaboration to treatment outcome. Specifically, 15 studies with a total sample size of 1,302 yielded a goal consensuspsychotherapy outcome effect size of .34 ( SD = .19, p < .0001, 95% confidence interval = .23.45), indicating that better outcomes can be expected when patient and therapist agree on therapeutic goals and the processes to achieve these goals. The collaboration-outcome meta-analysis based on 19 studies with a total sample of 2,260 patients yielded a mean correlation of .33 ( SD = .17, p < .0001, 95% confidence interval = .25.42), suggesting that psychotherapy outcome appears to be considerably enhanced when patient and therapist are actively involved in a cooperative relationship. We discuss therapeutic practices that follow from these findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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