Follow-up findings for interpretive and supportive forms of psychotherapy and patient personality variables

Follow-up findings at 6 and 12 months are reported for a clinical trial tha t investigated the efficacy of interpretive and supportive forms of short-t erm individual psychotherapy and the interaction of each form with the pati ent's quality of object relations (QOR) and psychological mindedness (PM). Patients in both forms maintained their posttherapy improvements at 6- and 12-month follow-up assessments. They did not differ significantly from each other. Ar 6 and 12 months, there was evidence for a direct relation betwee n QOR and favorable outcome. At 12 months, there was also evidence for an i nteraction effect, which indicated a direct relation between QOR and favora ble outcome for interpretive therapy and almost no relation for supportive therapy. Thus, QOR continued to be an important predictor of outcome at 6 a nd 12 months, with some evidence for persistence of an interaction effect. In contrast, no follow-up effects were found for PM.