Response to Meteyard et al. (2016). Commentary on "A Review of the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy and Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy in the Treatment of Major Depression: Implications for Mental Health Social Work Practice" (O'Neal, Jackson, & McDermott, 2014)

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The authors express their thanks to Dr John Meteyard and the Research Committee of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) for taking the time to provide his helpful commentary on O’Neal, Jackson, and McDermott (2014). To recapitulate, O’Neal et al. (2014) found that, on balance, short-term psychodynamic therapy (STPT) and cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) were equally effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder. In terms of efficacy, however, our study pointed to CBT as being the more efficacious of the two treatment approaches. We purposely emphasised the distinction between these two methodological concepts so as to delineate between those outcome eff..