Maintenance (vs. Change) of Critical Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a video intervention, which was designed to improve therapy expectation of persons with critical attitudes towards psychotherapy via violating their expectations about therapy. Therefore, 120 participants will be recruited and randomized to two groups: (1) An experimental group that is watching a video with patients (actors) that are giving oral information about their therapy and the mostly positive therapy outcome, (2) a control group that is watching a video with the same patients before therapy or after the first therapy session who are giving information about symptoms and their expectation on therapy. The primary outcome is the Milwaukee Psychotherapy Expectation Questionnaire (MPEQ) collected before and after the video.