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Fresh Symptom Emergence After Intensive Behaviour Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. Julian Hafner
R. Julian Hafner*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT
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Summary

The outcome of a standard four-day intensive symptomatic treatment programme with 39 agoraphobics is examined in relation to the incidence of fresh symptom emergence. Twenty-six patients suffered fresh symptom emergence during follow-up, and there was a significant association of fresh symptom emergence with poorer outcome at one-year follow-up. About 18 per cent of patients were adversely affected by the treatment programme, as judged on a wide range of symptoms and measures of inter- and intra-personal adjustment. Sixteen individually treated patients are then compared with the 39 group-treated patients and differences in drop-out rate are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 378 - 383
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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