Common interventions in two single cases of cognitive and psychoanalytic psychotherapies.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the interventions used in two nonmanualized psychotherapeutic treatments-one cognitive and one psychoanalytically oriented-; assessing the theoretical framework's pervasiveness in terms of the specificity of the interventions implemented by the psychotherapists. Our purpose was to observe which proportion of the therapists' interventions were directly associated with their theoretical background, and which proportion of them represented common, nonspecific or specific interventions. For this research, 29 sessions from a psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment and 15 sessions from a cognitive psychotherapeutic treatment (both audio-recorded and transcribed), were analyzed. The classifications of psychotherapeutic interventions developed by Roussos, Etchebarne, and Waizmann (2005; were used in order to characterize the interventions. Results show that both treatments were highly impregnated by nonspecific interventions. Only an average of 17% of the interventions in the psychoanalytic treatment and a 16% in the cognitive treatment, were specific of the theoretical frameworks.

Interventions of the Psychoanalytic Therapist in the Psychotherapeutic Process of a Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder

“…Conversely, a subsequent study by Roussos et al (2010), using the Modifi ed Multidimensional Classifi cation of Psychotherapeutic Interventions (CMIP-M), found contradictory results. This instrument presents a methodology for the construction of a classifi catory scheme for the psychoanalytic and cognitive behavioral interventions and aims to identify types of interventions in clinical material.…”

“…Another aspect considered relevant among the variables of the therapist is the characteristics of the interventions performed during the psychotherapeutic process (Goodman et al, 2014). This study focuses on the types of interventions associated with the improvement or alteration of the process, thus identifying the so-called "active ingredients" of the therapeutic change (Banon et al, 2013;Roussos, Waizmann, & Etchebarne, 2010).…”

“…Differences found in the proportions of specifi c and common interventions can be justifi ed by the assumption that both types of interventions interact and complement each other. Thus, common interventions may be paving the way for specifi c interventions, that is, their role in psychotherapy may be to generate the context and timing for specifi c interventions (Roussos et al, 2010).…”

“…The CMIP-M, developed based on the theoretical investigation and qualitative analysis of audio recordings of clinical sessions (Roussos et al, 2010), has already been used in other studies with the aim of analyzing psychotherapeutic interventions. Authors such as Roussos et al (2010) and Waizmann et al (2006) used the CMIP-M in their studies and did not mention any limitations regarding the instrument.…”

Propiedades psicométricas preliminares de la Escala de Intervenciones Comunes: un instrumento para estudiar las acciones de los terapeutas de distintos marcos teóricos

“…En el ámbito de la psicoterapia se denomina intervenciones a las acciones del profesional que tienen el propósito terapéutico de generar cambios en el paciente (Roussos, Waizmann y Etchebarne, 2010). Una de las principales variables que atraviesan estas intervenciones es el marco teórico al que adscriben los terapeutas (Beutler et al, 2004).…”