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Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship, Optimizing Expectations, Professional Preparation

Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship, Optimizing Expectations, Professional Preparation - STEP

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00037161
Enrollment
100
Registered
2025-06-23
Start date
2025-06-23
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Voluntary study participants are patients of the internal psychotherapy outpatient clinic, during the probationary period

Interventions

Group 1: "Booster" session before start of therapy Group 2: Control group: Handing out a flyer for self-study

Sponsors

Philipps-Universität Marburg
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: No sufficient knowledge of German for the intervention

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Assessment of treatment outcome expectations using the Generic rating scale for previous treatment experiences, treatment expectations, and treatment effects (GEEE) as well as content-based assessment of expectations using TEX-Q and the Inventory for the Balanced Assessment of Negative Effects of Psychotherapy (INEP): Measurement time points: before the intervention (T0), directly after the intervention (T1), 3 months after therapy session t1 (T2), 3 months after therapy session t12 (follow-up)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI): Abbreviated version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R), questionnaire to assess subjective impairment due to psychological symptoms (Geisheim et al., 2002) Health questionnaire for patients (PHQ-9): Questionnaire to assess the severity of depressive symptoms (Löwe et al. 2015) Helping Alliance Questionaire (HAQ) (Bassler et al., 2015)

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactDaria Mousavi

Philipps-Universität Marburg

daria.mousavi@staff.uni-marburg.de+49 6421 28-2375

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026