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Title: | Who Seeks Alternative Psychotherapies? Domain-Specific Predictors and Latent Profiles | Authors: | Fasce, Angelo Adrián-ventura, Jesús |
Keywords: | alternative psychotherapies; alternative medicine; CAM; evidence-based practice; pseudoscience | Issue Date: | 2023 | Publisher: | Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences | Project: | European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964728 (JITSUVAX) | Serial title, monograph or event: | Studia Psychologica | Volume: | 65 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | Techniques presented as psychotherapies without evidence for effective treatment constitute a long-standing and under-researched issue within clinical psychology. We report on an exploratory study using a cross-sectional sample (N = 538) to find predictors and profiles of use of Complementary and Alternative Psychotherapies (CAP). Five well-established constructs were assessed: help-seeking preferences, psychiatric scepticism, mental health literacy, psychological mindedness, and psychotherapy expectancy. Religiosity, help-seeking, distrust in mental health care, interest in psychological phenomena, expectations of relationship with the psychotherapist, and belief in the effectiveness of alternative psychotherapies positively predicted use of CAP. Parallel analyses of evidence-based psychotherapies and alternative medicine revealed that some of these predictors are specific to CAP. Latent profile analysis identified three profiles among users of alternative psychotherapies, conceptualized as religious, unmotivated, and analytical. We discuss our results in relation to these profiles, suggesting various implications and lines of research. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114738 | ISSN: | 0039-3320 2585-8815 |
DOI: | 10.31577/sp.2023.01.864 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FMUC Medicina - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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