Client feedback in China: A randomized clinical trial in a college counseling center.

Although client feedback has been demonstrated to improve psychotherapy outcomes in over a dozen randomized clinical trials, no studies to date have investigated the feedback effect outside of the United States or Europe. This study examined the impact of a client feedback intervention, the Partners for Change Outcome Management System, in a college counseling center in Wuhan, China ( = 186). Using a randomized design within routine care, treatment as usual (TAU; = 85) was compared with a feedback condition ( = 101) in which therapists had access to client-generated outcome and alliance information at each session.

An examination of generalized anxiety disorder and dysthymia utilizing the Rorschach inkblot method.

This study examined transdiagnostic features of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and dysthymia in an outpatient clinical sample. Fifteen patients who met DSM-IV criteria for GAD and twenty-one patients who met DSM-IV criteria for dysthymia but who did not have comorbid anxiety disorder were evaluated utilizing the Rorschach. Salient clinical variables were then compared.