Psychotherapy Homework for Depression and Anxiety

The prognosis would probably still be pretty grim but for patients with depression and anxiety. Every patient who with depression must agree to do the psychotherapy homework between sessions. A study that I published in probably the top psychology journal of consulting on clinical psychology in the 1990s where we measured for the first time the causal effect of psychotherapy homework on recovery from depression. The data showed virtually every patient who refused to do psychotherapy homework failed to improve many actually got worse.