PatientsLikeMe : Counseling Treatment Report

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Patients

Taking Counseling
68 Patients currently take Counseling
9 Patients stopped taking Counseling
BobbyG Depression: 3 Emotional: 3 Compulsion: 1 Anxiety: 2 Mania: 1 Physical: 1 External Stress: Low 26 M Function: Low Distress: Moderate See profile BobbyG Interpersonal Therapy, 1hr weekly since Sep 03, 2008
brkrchll Flare-up: Moderate Sensation: Moderate Overall: Moderate Cognition: moderate Vision: mild Speech: moderate Swallowing: moderate Upper limb: mild Walking: moderate See profile brkrchll 1hr monthly since Jan 01, 2002
HeatherKB Sensation: None Overall: Mild Cognition: moderate Vision: mild Speech: none Swallowing: mild Upper limb: moderate Walking: moderate See profile HeatherKB Counseling w/Psychologist, monthly since Jul 25, 2008

Brand Names: Christian counseling, Counseling w/Psychologist, Intensive Outpatient Program, Interpersonal Therapy, Marriage counseling, Movie Therapy, One on one peer counseling, Psychiatric evaluation, Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Individual Therapy, Traumatic Incident Reduction
See also: Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Psychotherapy

What is Counseling? Counseling can be defined as a relatively short-term, interpersonal, theory-based process of helping persons who are fundamentally psychologically healthy resolve developmental and situational issues.

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Reasons Taken

77 patients in the community are taking or have taken Counseling.

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Depression	25	32%
Other	18	23%
General health	11	14%
Treat my mood condition(s)	4	5%
Support another treatment	3	3%
Anxiety	3	3%
Emotional lability	2	2%
disease-related symptoms	2	2%
Treat Parkinson's	1	1%
Slow my MS progress	1	1%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Counseling.

Top 10 (Show all)

All (Show Top 10)

0 month	0 other none	0 none	0 other week	0 week	1 hr month	1 other month	1 month	2 hr month	2 month	1 hr week	1 hr week	1 other week	1 week	10 min month	15 min month	60 min month	30 min week	3 other day	45 min week	30 min week	60 min week	60 mg day
9	1	1	1	10	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Counseling or how long patients were taking Counseling before stopping.

Currently taking Counseling

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
2	10	6	7	7	28

Stopped taking Counseling

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
1	0	0	0	2	6

Why Patients Stopped Taking Counseling (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Course of treatment ended	4	44%
Other	3	33%
Did not seem to work	2	22%
Expense	1	11%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 6 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major	67%	2
None	33%	1

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	0%	0
Moderate	0%	0
Mild	17%	1
None	83%	5

Top reported side-effects include: Depression, Anxiety and Frustration

Summary results are based on 6 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 6)

BobbyG

Depression: 3

Emotional: 3

Compulsion: 1

Anxiety: 2

Mania: 1

Physical: 1

External Stress: Low

26 M

Function: Low

Distress: Moderate

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by BobbyG
Oct 02, 2008