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Patient Characteristics and Their Relationship to Psychotherapy Outcome

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Issues in Psychotherapy Research

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An important variable relating to both the course and outcome of psychotherapy involves the patient and the characteristics he or she brings into the therapeutic situation. Past research in this area has attempted to relate patient variables such as motivation, expectancies, demographic characteristics, diagnosis, severity of maladjustment, and personality traits to continuation in therapy, therapy outcome, and in-therapy patient behavior.

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