| Abstract: | Within the context of treatment outcome research in the oncology setting, the authors propose a model that integrates the models of responsibility developed by P. Brickman et al (see record 1982-30315-001), W. T. Powers's (1973) control theory, and E. T. Higgins's (1989) self-discrepancy theory. This integrative approach is patient-centered in its attempt to base an assessment of the psychotherapy or other interventions on an understanding of the patients' self-reference states as they interact with the treatment being assessed and the disorder for which interventions were attempted. The authors highlight some of the ways in which a purely medical treatment, such as chemotherapy, can evoke the type of patient distress whose treatment falls within the domain of psychologists. Cancer patients' internal reference states need to be considered in the respective outcome research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
