How Can I Help You? Dimensional versus Categorical Distinctions in the Assessment for Child Analysis and Child Psychotherapy

Hoffman, Leon

doi:10.1080/15289168.2019.1701866

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“…At the start of treatment, the therapist can systematically evaluate the individual's signature TL components. The evaluation can be accomplished using feedback systems (Lutz, Rubel, Schwartz, Schilling, & Deisenhofer, 2019), clinical interviews (Hoffman, 2020), a diagnostic battery, or any other assessment approach. The result is an initial formulation (topography) of the individual's main TL strengths and weaknesses that serves as a map for identifying the active ingredients of treatment most critical for that individual to achieve SL therapeutic change.…”

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Toward personalized psychotherapy: The importance of the trait-like/state-like distinction for understanding therapeutic change.

Zilcha‐Mano

2021

American Psychologist

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For the past hundred years, mechanisms of change have been the black box of psychotherapy. Thousands of studies failed to produce consistent findings, even concerning factors considered crucial for treatment success by theoretical models and decades of clinical experience. This article introduces the distinction between trait-like (TL) and state-like (SL) components of any mechanism of change (the TLSL distinction) as a potential key to the black box of psychotherapy. TL refers to individual differences between patients; SL refers to changes occurring within the patient over the course of treatment. The TLSL distinction explains why past research, which conflated the two, has produced conflicting results, and predicts the conditions under which consistent results can be obtained. Data collected so far show support for the importance of the TLSL distinction and point the way toward personalized treatment. The TL components create the individual’s signature pathology and strengths map, and determine the SL changes that represent the patient-specific mechanisms most critical for optimizing treatment efficacy for each individual. The TLSL distinction has the potential to explain not only how psychotherapy works, but also how changes of any type occur in the wake of intervention, life events, and other factors.

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Section: Clinical Demonstrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward personalized psychotherapy: The importance of the trait-like/state-like distinction for understanding therapeutic change.

Zilcha‐Mano

2021

American Psychologist

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How Can I Help You? Dimensional versus Categorical Distinctions in the Assessment for Child Analysis and Child Psychotherapy

Cited by 1 publication

References 42 publications

Toward personalized psychotherapy: The importance of the trait-like/state-like distinction for understanding therapeutic change.

Toward personalized psychotherapy: The importance of the trait-like/state-like distinction for understanding therapeutic change.

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