Hugo Grünwald

Publications (2)2.66 Total impact

• Article: [The effectiveness of family systems acute psychiatry - first results].

  Aureliano Crameri, Hugo S Grünwald, Jochen Schweitzer
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  ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of family systems therapeutic interventions in the treatment of psychiatric inpatients was investigated within an observational study. The entire multiprofessional teams of six psychiatric wards in Germany were trained to perform family systems interventions in practice routine. 187 inpatients treated with the new interventions were matched 1 : 1 on propensity score with controls treated before the team training in the same wards. Outcome measures included self-reports (BSI) and therapist ratings (BPRS and FaeBe). The average improvement reached moderate to strong effect sizes in both group. A comparison between the groups shows no significant outcome differences. No significant outcome improvement could be determined after the team training and implementation of the additional interventions. Different suggestions to improve the intervention program are discussed.
  Psychiatrische Praxis 12/2008; 36(3):125-31. · 1.64 Impact Factor
• Article: [Effectiveness of out-patient psychotherapy--a multimethod study in the German speaking part of Switzerland].

  Hugo Stephan Grünwald, Andreas Zoltán Kiss, Christian Keller
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  ABSTRACT: The present paper describes an effectiveness-study to analyze the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic treatments. In the documentation phase of three years 24 therapists documented 93 psychotherapies. The patients represent a general population of health care takers. The treatments have an average duration of 45 appointments over 62 weeks. Good results are being achieved within this short period of treatment. The reduction of symptoms (global severity index GSI of SCL-90-R) reaches a high effectsize; regarding their symptoms 46 % of the patients can be considered as cured and 74 % as cured or improved.
  PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie 05/2008; 58(9-10):387-94. · 1.02 Impact Factor