Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the 7 distinctive features of contemporary psychodynamic therapy
2. Discuss the concepts of effect size and meta-analysis as they apply to psychotherapy outcome
3. Describe empirical evidence supporting psychodynamic therapy
Supplemental Readings:
Levy, K., Ehrenthal, J., Yeomans, F., & Caligor, E. (2014) The Efficacy of Psychotherapy: Focus on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy as an Example. Psychodynamic Psychiatry. (42)(3):377-421
Lindors, O., Knekt, P., Lehtonen, J., Virtala, E., Maljanen, T., & Harkanen, T. (2019) Effectiveness of psychoanalysis and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy on personality and social functioning 10 years after start of treatment. Psychiatry Research (272) 774–783
Knekt, P., Heinonen, E., & Lindhors, O. (2018) Follow-up of the effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis 5 years after the end of psychoanalysis: Minor differences in psychiatric symptoms and work ability. Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research (30)163–166
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