13 clients undergoing 15 sessions of individual imagery psychotherapy (emotive-reconstructive therapy) were compared with 13 persons participating in 8 2-hr., 20-min. didactic self-help seminars to assess the comparative effectiveness of each treatment on a measure of psychological problem behaviors (primarily related to anxiety and depression). As predicted, results indicated that both treatments effected a significant decrease of problem behaviors, but that clients in therapy reported a significantly greater decrease in such symptoms than the self-help group.
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