Treatment Matching in the Posthospital Care of Depressed Patients

This study assessed the efficacy of 1) matching patients to treatments and 2) adding additional family therapy or cognitive therapy in a group of recently discharged patients with major depression.Patients with major depression were recruited during a psychiatric hospitalization. After discharge, they were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions that were either "matched" or "mismatched" to their pattern of cognitive distortion and...