TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Efficacy of brief telephone psychotherapy with callers to a suicide hotline
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Rhee, Wayne K.
A1  - Merbaum, Michael
A1  - Strube, Michael J.
A1  - Self, Susan M.
SP  - 317
EP  - 328
VL  - 35
IS  - 3
N2  - The efficacy of two types of therapy conducted exclusively over the telephone was studied. Clients (N=55) were recruited from a pool of callers to a suicide hotline and were randomly assigned to a waiting list control (WC) or Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) or Common Factors Therapy (CFT). It was hypothesized that improvements would be significantly higher in the two therapy conditions compared to the waitlist control and SFBT would be significantly more efficacious than CFT. Results confirmed that improvement was significantly higher in the two treatment conditions compared to the waitlist control, but no difference in improvement was found between SFBT and CFT. The implications of these findings for suicide hotlines are discussed.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -