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Project 8: The role of expectations in Psychotherapy

Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)

PhD Student: Pauline Bauermann

This project will continue to investigate the role of expectations and their modification in psychological treatments (including psychotherapy motivation). Patient expectations are supposed to play a major role as disorder-maintaining factor, and new approaches of modifying patient’s expectations with psychological interventions will be developed.

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