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Long-term psychotherapy in tertiary care: A practice-based benchmarking study.

Chris Gaskell¹, Stephen Kellett^1,2, Melanie Simmonds-Buckley^1,2

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

The British Journal of Clinical Psychology

|March 27, 2023

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Psychotherapy in UK tertiary care showed moderate effectiveness with lengthy interventions for highly distressed patients. Outcomes were lower than benchmarks, with low reliable improvement and recovery rates.

Keywords:

effectiveness growth curves psychotherapy tertiary care

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Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
Healthcare Services Research

Background:

Tertiary care psychotherapy services often manage complex cases with high baseline distress.
Limited research exists on the long-term effectiveness of psychological interventions in these specialized settings.

Approach:

A 10-year retrospective analysis of psychotherapy outcomes (OQ-45) in a UK tertiary care service.
Evaluated cognitive-behavioural, cognitive-analytic, and psychoanalytic modalities.
Benchmarked effectiveness against meta-analysis of equivalent services and analyzed change trajectories using growth curve models.

Key Points:

Patients presented with higher baseline distress than general norms (OQ-45 M=102.57).
Average intervention length was substantial (48.68 sessions).
Moderate pre-post treatment effect size (d=0.46) was observed, lower than benchmarks, with reliable improvement at 29.95% and recovery at 10.16%.

Conclusions:

Elevated baseline distress necessitates longer treatments but results in attenuated outcomes.
Psychotherapy modalities showed similar outcomes despite differing durations.
Recommendations are proposed for the clinical role, function, and evaluation of tertiary care psychotherapy services.