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Two-Year Follow-up of the Sheffield Psychotherapy Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David A. Shapiro  and
Jenny Firth-Cozens
David A. Shapiro*
Affiliation:
MRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN
Jenny Firth-Cozens
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Leeds
*
∗Correspondence
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Of 40 depressed and anxious patients who received treatment during the Sheffield Psychotherapy Project, 31 completed the BDI and SCL-90 at two-year follow-up. At both group and individual levels, outcomes were very similar to those obtained at the completion of treatment. Substantial minorities of patients reported major life events and seeking further help for psychological problems during the two years, but these reports were not reliably associated with symptoms at follow-up. Patients recalled very different elements in prescriptive and exploratory therapies as helpful, with a notable emphasis upon prescriptive therapy's relaxation and anxiety management as a source of problem solution.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 389 - 391
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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