Psychotherapy Process Dynamics and Their Relation to Treatment Success Do Not Differ Across Diagnoses.

ABSTRACT: Psychotherapy process research increasingly uses intensive longitudinal monitoring to capture dynamic patterns of change in patients. In this study, 283 psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with depression (n = 70), PTSD (n = 148), dissociative disorders (n = 26) or personality disorders (n = 39) completed the Therapy Process Questionnaire each evening over an average of 81.5 days per patient, yielding a total of 23,074 assessment days. We computed eight dynamic process characteristics, including variability, autocorrelation, instability and complexity, for each TPQ scale, both on average per patient and in a moving-window approach. Then, the diagnostic groups were compared via one-way ANOVAs with Bonferroni-Holm correction. No significant differences emerged across diagnoses in any average pr

SUBMITTER: Seizer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12811794 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature