A note on the confounding of personality and social class characteristics in research on premature termination.

A recent article by S. L. Stern et al (see record 1975-25807-001) on early termination in psychotherapy is critically evaluated in terms of their appraisal of former studies and also with reference to major methodological issues in this area of research. Particularly stressed are the issues of replication, sample variation, and definitions of terminators and remainers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)