Therapist-Level Moderators of Patient-Therapist Match Effectiveness in Community Psychotherapy.

ABSTRACT: Based on patient-reported outcomes data analyzed at the provider level, there is evidence that psychotherapists can possess effectiveness strengths and weaknesses when treating patients with different presenting concerns. These within-therapist differences hold promise for personalizing care by prospectively matching patients to therapists' historical effectiveness strengths. In a double-masked randomized controlled trial (RCT; NCT02990000), such matching outperformed pragmatically determined usual case assignment-which leaves personalized, measurement-based matching to chance-in naturalistic outpatient psychotherapy (Constantino et al., JAMA Psychiatry 78:960-969, 2021). Demonstrating that personalization can be even more precise, some research has demonstrated that the strength of this p

SUBMITTER: Coyne AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11379779 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature