The results found in the meta-analysis of Elliott and Freire, are uniformly good news for
Person-centred-experiential practitioners: Clients use our therapies to make large changes in themselves; these changes are maintained over time and are much larger than our clients would have experienced without therapy.
Our clients also show as much change as clients seen in other therapies, including CBT, but only if bonafide Person-centred, Process-experiential and other experiential therapies were involved.
For those of us in the PCE tradition, the moral of this story is that we do not need to be afraid of either quantitative outcome research or RCTs. Therefor it is imperative that PCE therapists do their own outcome research - including RCTs – on legitimate versions of our therapies.
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
