Dyk #7: Which works better, standardized or individualized therapy?

Did you know… That people generally react better to standardized therapy than to a therapy customized to their needs and problems? In 1996, Dietmar Schulte, a German researcher, decided he wanted to find out whether people react bettter to standardized or individualized therapy. Then (and even now), therapist were convinced that the more individualized the therapy was, the more effect it would have. Schulte made three groups of people with different kinds of phobias (mainly agoraphobia – the fear of having a panic attack in public): group 1, in which the clients would get standardized therapy, group 2, where the clients would get individualized therapy (taking marital problems, co-morbid disorders and other issues into the equation), and the people...