Report from the Viennese Project. Outcome Research in Psychotherapy

Abstract

In this report from the Viennese Project we have tried to describe the outcome of psychotherapy patients who were seen for an interview 5 years before the follow-up interview at our institute. In order to measure the change that took place we categorized the type of therapy contact the patients had. It can be shown that the patients in these groups vary in age, social status, diagnosis, etc. The institute also offers different types of treatment to these varying groups. The first aim of our study was to check our own system of patient care.