Simplistic thinking about other people as a predictor of early drop‐out at an alcoholism halfway house

Orford, Jim

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1974.tb02271.x

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“…The alcoholic inpatient's cognitive style is also involved in whether he stays in the hospital. Thus, Orford (1974) reported that halfway house patients whose interpersonal perceptions were simplistic and polarized were most likely to drop out. Finally, Voth (1965) found that alcoholic inpatients who scored high on autokinesis were more likely to elope.…”

Section: Alcoholismmentioning

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Dropping out of treatment: A critical review.

Baekeland

Lundwall²

1975

Psychological Bulletin

1,016

554

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After a discussion of methodological issues of the past 20 years, literature on dropping out of treatment was critically reviewed in six areas: hospital treatment of general psychiatric and tubercular patients, outpatient treatment of internal medical conditions, alcoholism, heroin addiction, general psychiatric outpatient psychotherapy, and double-blind drug studies. Fifteen factors were found to predict dropping out in 100%, 83%-88%, and 60%-75% of the relevant studies: (a) social isolation and/or unaffiliation, therapist attitudes and behavior, discrepancies between patient and therapist treatment expectations; (b) passive-aggressive behavior, family attitudes and behavior, motivation, behavioral and/or perceptual dependence, psychological mindedness and/ or -denial, symptom levels and symptom relief, socioeconomic status, sociopathic features, alcoholism and/or drug dependence; (c) age, sex, and social stability.One of the most vexing problems facing the physician, whether he is a surgeon, internist, or psychiatrist, is that far too many of those entrusted to his care, both inpatients and outpatients, drop out of treatment before they have completed it to his satisfaction. Although the question of the dropout has most often engaged the attention of psychiatrists, it also crops up from time to time in papers by internists, for whom there is no reason to believe that it is any less serious a problem. Where studied, the dropout problem has usually been in the context of treating chronic conditions that require prolonged treatment. The extent of this problem can be inferred ^rom the fact that in general psychiatric clinics, 20%-57% of the patients fail to return after the first visit (Blenkner,

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Section: Alcoholismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dropping out of treatment: A critical review.

Baekeland

Lundwall²

1975

Psychological Bulletin

1,016

554

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“…For instance, several studies have found that low cognitive differentiation (tight or unidimensional construing) acted as a predictor of poor treatment outcome in group therapy for alcohol abuse (Orford, 1974; low cognitive differentiation predicted dropout), behavioural therapy for agoraphobia (Winter & Gournay, 1987), psychotherapy for inpatients with anorexia (Button, 1983), group (Winter, 1983) and individual analytic therapy (Carr, 1974), and PCPT (Morris, 1977). Nevertheless, one study found that a tight construing predicted bad outcome in group analytic therapy, but good outcome in behavioural therapy (Winter, 1983).…”

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Patterns of change and their relationship to outcome and follow-up in group and individual psychotherapy for depression.

Moggia¹,

Lutz²,

Arndt³

et al. 2020

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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3.5.3 Patients' baseline characteristics as predictors of the patterns of change………………………………………………………….... 3.5.4 Patterns of change as predictors of treatment outcome at termination and follow-up……………………………….……… 4. Results………………………………………………………...…………… 4.1 Patterns of Change for Group and Individual Therapy………………….. 4.2 Patients' Characteristics within Each Pattern………………...………… 4.3 Patients' Baseline Characteristics as Predictors of the Patterns of Change………………………………………………………….……… 4.4 Patterns of Change as Predictors of Treatment Outcome at Termination and Follow-up…………………………………………………..……… 5. Discussion…………………………………….…………………………… 5.1 Limitations of the Study………………………………………………...

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Changing Sexual Interests, Identities, and Behaviours

Horley

Clarke

2016

Experience, Meaning, and Identity in Sexuality

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Simplistic thinking about other people as a predictor of early drop‐out at an alcoholism halfway house

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Dropping out of treatment: A critical review.

Dropping out of treatment: A critical review.

Patterns of change and their relationship to outcome and follow-up in group and individual psychotherapy for depression.

Changing Sexual Interests, Identities, and Behaviours

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