The sleeper effect between psychotherapy orientations: a strategic argument of sustainability of treatment effects at follow-up

摘要

Over the past 100 years, claims that psychotherapeutic orientations produce more sustainable outcomes, when compared with other orientations or interventions common across psychotherapies, have been pervasive and influential. This kind of in relative efficacy over follow-up time periods is referred to as the ‘sleeper effect’, i.e., the effects of psychotherapy A against psychotherapy B produces larger treatment differences at follow-up than at post-assessment (see ).