NCT05151354

Attachment, Patient Self-disclosure and Psychotherapy Outcome

Attachment as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Patient Self-disclosure and Psychotherapy Outcome: Separating Within- From Between-patient Effects

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,500 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Heidelberg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates whether within- and between-patient effects of attachment moderate the association between self-disclosure and psychotherapy outcome.

Detailed description

Participants are recruited at the University Clinic Heidelberg at the beginning of their (usually) 8-week inpatient treatment. After informed consent, patients routinely fill out weekly questionnaires on attachment, self-disclosure, and symptom severity. This study is the first to disentangle stable, trait-like (between-person) effects of both attachment and self-disclosure from within-person changes over the course of treatment. The study investigates whether (changes in) attachment moderate the association between (changes in) self-disclosure and psychotherapy outcome.

Conditions

• Psychotherapy
• Attachment
• Self Disclosure
• Treatment Outcome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Psychotherapy	Patients receive 8 weeks of inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment. Treatment consists of individual and group psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as an individual combination of art, music, body-oriented and relaxation therapies, which are also carried out in group settings. Treatments is provided by an interdisciplinary team of psychotherapists with a medical or psychology degree, art of music therapists, social workers, physiotherapists and specialist nurses.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-09-01
• Completion: 2021-09-01
• First posted: 2021-12-09
• Last updated: 2021-12-09