Routine treatment duration for clients attending a community based anxiety disorders clinic.

CONCLUSION: Clients with anxiety disorders were often treated in relatively few sessions, in line with randomised controlled trials (RCTs). However, a number of clients required many more sessions and were treated for a longer period of time than clients in RCTs. Health services should be cautious in mandating limits to therapy duration for anxiety disorders given the wide range in the duration of treatment for clients in our sample.
PMID: 27590079 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - September 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hannan A, Berle D, Milicevic D, Dale E, Starcevic V, Brakoulias V, Viswasam K Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research