Publications by authors named "Kristina Braun-Koch"
Objectives: Therapy expectations and attitudes towards psychotherapy contribute substantially to the outcome, process and duration of psychotherapy. The a priori use of role model videos seems to be promising for changing expectations and attitudes towards psychotherapy. In contrast, underlying mechanisms, like identifying with the role model, have been sparsely investigated in studies so far.
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- Expectations play a key role in maintaining mental disorders, and psychological treatments aim to modify these expectations, even when faced with contrary evidence.
- Understanding why patients hold onto dysfunctional expectations and how to create situations that violate these expectations is crucial for effective treatment.
- The article presents a model detailing factors that influence the outcomes of expectation violations, emphasizes the importance of individual personality traits in shaping treatment plans, and provides recommendations to enhance treatment effectiveness and minimize risks of failure.
Introduction: Therapy expectations contribute substantially to the outcome of psychotherapy. In contrast, psychotherapy expectations are rarely addressed and systematically optimised in studies on psychotherapy.
Materials And Methods: A total of 142 mostly healthy participants with critical attitudes towards psychotherapy were randomised into two groups: (1) a control group that watched a video with patients who gave information about their symptoms or (2) an experimental group that watched an expectation-optimised video with the same patients giving additional information about their mostly positive therapy outcomes.