TY  - JOUR
T1  - TIme-limited psychotherapy for whom
AU  - Haskell D, Pugatch D, McNair DM
Y1  - 1969/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740230034005
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 546
EP  - 552
VL  - 21
IS  - 5
N2  - SHORT-TERM psychotherapy has been described as an effective method for treating many psychiatric patients. Good results have been reported with a number of different techniques.1-5 In most reports, however, success has been described not measured. The general purpose of this study was to measure patients' response to a recently instituted time-limited (TL) psychotherapy program.The study had three specific goals: (1) to determine if change occurred during the TL treatment period; (2) to test whether criterion measures useful in evaluating other brief treatments would prove sensitive to change following TL treatment; and (3) to determine what patient characteristics related either to treatment success or to treatment failure.Method 
    The Treatment.—The study was conducted at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Boston University Medical Center. The clinic has adopted a TL treatment period of 12 hours.6 Although the 12 hours may be arranged
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740230034005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740230034005
ER  -