Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Rodrigo da Cunha Teixeira
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Miguel M., Machado, Paulo P. P., Sinai, Dana, Bento, Tiago, Salgado, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/30857
• topic: Depression; Treatment of depression; Psychological treatment of depression; Empirically Supported Therapy (EST); Narrative Therapy; Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; Social Sciences

Background: Systematic studies of the efficacy of Narrative Therapy (NT) for depression are sparse. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of individual NT for moderate depression in adults compared to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Method: Sixty-three depressed clients were assigned to either NT or CBT. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 (OQ-45.2) were used as outcome measures. Results: We found a significant symptomatic reduction in both treatments. Group differences favoring CBT were found on the BDI-II, but not on the OQ-45.2. Conclusions: Pre- to post-treatment effect sizes for completers in both groups were superior to benchmarked waiting-list control groups.