Contextualizing the negative effects of psychotherapy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F25%3A00141712" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/25:00141712 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-025-00472-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-025-00472-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44159-025-00472-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s44159-025-00472-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contextualizing the negative effects of psychotherapy
Original language description
Clinical recommendations and informed decision-making require an evidence-based understanding of psychological treatment's potential benefits and risks. Whereas psychotherapy outcome research has traditionally focused primarily on the positive effects of treatments, the number of publications on negative effects has rapidly increased over the past decade. In this Review, we shed light on the potential risks of psychotherapy and discuss the challenges associated with their contextualization. Based on an overview of the current core definitions of the negative effects of psychotherapy, we propose an initial conceptualization of the most frequently used terms with a particular focus on the distinction between the negative effects of a correctly applied treatment and the reactions to incorrectly applied psychotherapeutic interventions and malpractice. We further describe assessment methods that measure negative effects from different perspectives and sources (the patient, the therapist and the relatives) and current evidence on the frequency of negative effects of psychotherapy from different study designs (randomized controlled trials, naturalistic studies and retrospective survey research). We discuss recommendations for therapist training, research and clinical practice to better understand, detect and prevent negative effects of psychotherapy and contribute to improving patient safety.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Reviews Psychology
ISSN
2731-0574
e-ISSN
2731-0574
Volume of the periodical
4
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
559-575
UT code for WoS article
001534658600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105011372562