Declaration I hereby declare that this is entirely my own work and that it has not been submitted as an exercise for the award of a degree at this or any other College or University. I agree that the library may lend or copy this dissertation on request. Cathriona Edwards August 4 2016 Abstract Many commentators acknowledge that the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy has by now been established. The growth of research methodologies in the last decade - particularly benchmarking however, offers the – opportunity to build ecologically-valid research which simultaneously answers professional, societal and academic needs for effective and high-quality based treatment and practice. The purpose of this naturalistic study is to assess the effectiveness of Human Givens (HG) Psychotherapy in Ireland for the first time. Replicating Andrews et al., (2011) pre- and post- treatment CORE-10 outcome measure scores were benchmarked against those of HG treatment effectiveness found in it’s UK primary care sample. Effect size (Cohen’s clinical equivalence was d) surpassed against the benchmark for all with valid scores and those clinical at inception (n=33, n=28; as benchmarked against n=107, This d=1.56; d=2.29 d=1.27). study reports 82% of the clinical population demonstrated improvement’ ‘reliable over an average of 3 sessions (n=25; M=12, SD=5.29). 71% of the clinical group recovered reliably improved (n = 20; M= 12.2, SD=5.21), the largest percentage and of recovery yet of Human Givens using similar measures, and over the shortest
Declaration I hereby declare that this is entirely my own work and that it has not been submitted as an exercise for the award of a degree at this or any other College or University. I agree that the library may lend or copy this dissertation on request. Cathriona Edwards August 4 2016 Abstract Many commentators acknowledge that the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy has by now been established. The growth of research methodologies in the last decade - particularly benchmarking – however, offers the opportunity to build ecologically-valid research which simultaneously answers professional, societal and academic needs for effective and high-quality treatment and practice. The purpose of this naturalistic study is to assess the effectiveness of Human Givens (HG) Psychotherapy in Ireland for the first time. Replicating Andrews et al., (2011) pre- and post- treatment CORE-10 outcome measure scores were benchmarked against those of HG treatment effectiveness found in it’s UK primary care sample. Effect size (Cohen’s d) clinical equivalence was surpassed against the benchmark for all with valid scores and those clinical at inception (n=33, d=1.56; n=28; d=2.29 as benchmarked against n=107, d=1.27). This study reports 82% of the clinical population demonstrated ‘reliable improvement’ over an average of 3 sessions (n=25; M=12, SD=5.29). 71% of the clinical group recovered and reliably improved (n = 20; M= 12.2, SD=5.21), the largest percentage of recovery yet of Human Givens using similar measures, and over the shortest based
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