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Process Variables and the Prediction of Outcome in Behaviour Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. M. Mathews ,
D. W. Johnston ,
P. M. Shaw  and
M. G. Gelder
A. M. Mathews
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
D. W. Johnston
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
P. M. Shaw
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
M. G. Gelder
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
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Variables measured before or during psychological treatment may be used in several related ways: as an empirical guide to prognosis with any given treatment, as a means of studying possible treatment mechanisms, or as a method of identifying which stage or process in treatment is associated with therapeutic change. Using data from the same patients already described in a recently published study (Gelder et al., 1973), questions of relevance to each of these areas will be examined in turn.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 586 , September 1974 , pp. 256 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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