Contextual assessment: evaluating a novel self-guided online therapeutic assessment

Self-guided online therapeutic assessment in substance abuse care: A Conflict Analysis implementation and feasibility case study

“…It includes diagnostic prompts that help identify patients’ behavioral patterns as well as therapeutic exercises that help patients gain insight about how to change these patterns. In contrast to CAB, CA is accessible online, provides automatic feedback, and includes updated items and prompts ( M. Levis & Levis, 2020b ). CA has been subject to several revisions following patient qualitative feedback to improve therapeutic achievement ( M. Levis, 2017 ).…”

“…In contrast to Therapeutic Assessment, which utilizes conventional assessment procedures such as the Rorschach ( Exner, 2003 ) and the MMPI ( Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008 ) alongside supportive and exploratory feedback, CA instead relies on measures that have been specifically developed for both diagnostic and therapeutic benefit ( M. Levis et al, 2020 ; M. Levis & Levis, 2020b ), coupled with feedback automatically culled from user responses. In contrast to Therapeutic Assessment, CA is online and self-guided, a format that may reduce the time and cost burden associated with in-person assessment delivery and evaluation ( Yates & Taub, 2003 ).…”

Evaluating the Therapeutic and Diagnostic Benefits of Conflict Analysis, a Self‐Guided Online Therapeutic Assessment: An Online Case Study

“…Prior studies (Levis & Levis, 2020) indicate clients typically complete full‐format CA in less than 3.5 hours and that at least 74.5% of clients rated the experience as diagnostically and therapeutically beneficial. Based on a previous randomized control study comparing CA with online mindfulness (Kabat‐Zinn, 2003) and narrative (Pennebaker, 2000) interventions ( M. Levis , 2017), completion rates were found to be similar between interventions, but CA clients (n = 96) reported significantly more therapeutic value over time.…”

“…Although CA's feasibility has been previously addressed (Levis & Levis, 2020), little has showcased client experience. Towards that end, this paper documents the record of a client, ‘Laura’, who responded to a posting about web‐based psychoeducation and self‐analysis and provided informed consent that her anonymized record could be used for research and publication.…”