[Behavior therapy in use--assessment of 633 cases of treatment]

633 written case-reports of behavior therapies were statistically evaluated. The case-reports, provided by 180 behavior therapists, were presented to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie in concurrence with their behavior therapy training closing criteria. Data concerning therapists and institutional settings were taken into consideration as well as data about patients, their disorders, specific treatments, lengths of therapy and outcomes. Results were discussed in the light of psychiatric-epidemiological and psychotherapy research as well as the general trends in theory and practice of psychotherapy.