[Personal resources in inpatient psychotherapy - Relationships and development].

Objective: We examined how personal resources develop during inpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy, their relationship to symptom development, Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), and sociodemographic aspects.

Methods: 483 patients were examined using self-assessment questionnaires (Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), Questionnaire of Actual Resource Realization (RES)) as well as the expert ratings Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), Impairment Score (IS), OPD-2, and the Heidelberg Structural Change Scale (HSCS), both at the beginning and the end of treatment.

Results: There was a marked improvement in the realization of personal resources during inpatient psychotherapy, which showed significant correlations to the improvement of symptoms.