Environmental Interventions and Therapeutic Outcome
Abstract
An evaluation study to determine whether intensive environmental interventions for individual patients help their psychotherapeutic progress was conducted at a community mental health center serving a multiethnic, inner-city catchment area with multiple social stressors. Using the Kiresuk-Sherman goal attainment scaling method for therapeutic and environmental goals, researchers analyzed outcome levels of a random sample of 150 patients. Ninety-two of those patients received both psychotherapeutic and environmental interventions, 37 received only psychotherapy, and 21 received only environmental interventions. Evaluation indicated that environmental goal attainment effectively predicted therapeutic outcome among high-, moderate-, and low-success groups.
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