Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• L'ABATE, LUCIANO
• L'ABATE, BESS L.
• MAINO, ELEONORA

Titel

Reviewing 25 Years of Professional Practice: Homework Assignments and Length of Therapy

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of family therapy, 2005-01, Vol.33 (1), p.19-31

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This exploratory review of 25 years of part-time professional practice with individuals, couples, and families, evaluated the number of face-to-face psychotherapy sessions with and without written homework assignments. Contrary to predictions from the literature, administration of a workbook lengthened significantly the number of face-to-face psychotherapy sessions for all groups. The exploratory nature of this review and its inability to deal with a host of uncontrolled variables made it impossible to deal with the issue of effectiveness. These results, nonetheless, raise questions about the claimed cost-effectiveness of written homework assignments. Future research will need to concentrate on variables that could not be controlled in this review.