The Effect of an Educating versus Normalizing Approach on Treatment Motivation in Patients Presenting with Delusions: An Experimental Investigation with Analogue Patients
Table 2
Analysis of the content of the open questions.
Categorized comments
Frequencies
Total
Educating
Normalizing
Understanding/empathic/validating
2
49
51
Invalidating/offending/denying
28
0
28
Emphasizes the illness
20
0
20
Calming
5
4
9
Normalizing/feeling of not being alone with the problem
