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Efficacy of a self‐control therapy program in a psychiatric day‐treatment center

A 12‐week self‐control therapy program based on the self‐control model proposed by Rehm was added to the routine program for depressed patients in a psychiatric day‐treatment center. It was hypothesized that addition of the self‐control therapy would accelerate the recovery of depressed patients. Twenty‐five depressed patients were randomly assigned to either standard treatment or standard treatment plus the self‐control therapy program. At post‐test, patients in the self‐control condition showed significant improvement with regard to self‐control, self‐esteem, depression, depressed mood and frequency and potential enjoyability of pleasant events, whereas the control patients did not. On 5 of 6 measures the differences between the groups were significant in the hypothesized direction. Although at the 13‐week follow‐up the positive effects of the self‐control therapy were maintained, between‐group differences were no longer significant, except for self‐control.