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COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL AND BRIEF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIES FOR DEPRESSED FAMILY CAREGIVERS 1992 Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Psychotherapy-Research GALLAGHERTHOMPSON, D., Steffen, A. M. AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. 1994: 543–49

Abstract

Clinically depressed family caregivers (N = 66) of frail, elderly relatives were randomly assigned to 20 sessions of either cognitive-behavioral (CB) or brief psychodynamic (PD) individual psychotherapy. At posttreatment, 71% of the caregivers were no longer clinically depressed according to research diagnostic criteria (RDC), with no differences found between the 2 outpatient treatments. The results suggested therapy specificity; there was an interaction between treatment modality and length of caregiving on symptom-oriented measures. Clients who had been caregivers for a shorter period showed improvement in the PD condition, whereas those who had been caregivers for at least 44 months improved with CB therapy. These findings suggest that patient-specific variables should be considered when choosing treatment for clinically depressed family caregivers.

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