Attitudes of psychotherapists towards their own performance and the role of the social comparison group: the self-assessment bias in psychodynamic, humanistic, systemic, and behavioral therapists

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To improve patient outcomes and decrease the proportion of patients that deteriorate or drop out (Lambert et_al, 2002; Hawkins et_al, 2004). Studies in the United_States and United Kingdom observed that therapists overestimate recovering/ improving patients and underestimate deteriorating patients compared to rates found in the outcome literature (Walfish et_al, 2012; Parker and Waller, 2015). It has been reported that in routine practice a considerable proportion of patients does not recover and some even experience reliable deterioration (Hansen et_al, 2002; Westbrook and Kirk, 2005). Inaccurate self-assessments might be one potential reason, as psychotherapists who . . .

 



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