Psychotherapy Process Q Sort

Jones, Enrico E.; Cumming, Janice D.; Horowitz, Mardi J.

doi:10.1037/t02202-000

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“…Q-methodology ordinarily requires 40–80 items (Watts & Stenner, 2005), with some researchers adopting 100 or more items in some instances (e.g. Jones, 1985). Large numbers of items are burdensome (particularly for depressed individuals), whereas smaller item sets risk inadequate coverage of the area of interest.…”

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Measuring melancholia: the utility of a prototypic symptom approach

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“…In the overall study, a host of methods were applied to session transcripts at six different points in time, among them the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (Jones 1985). For the present study, RF based on sessions was rated as follows: for each patient, ten audiotaped sessions from four points in time during the treatment (three at baseline, two at 80 hours of therapy, two at 160, and three at 240) were transcribed and analyzed.…”

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Changes in Reflective Functioning during Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies

Hörz-Sagstetter¹,

Mertens²,

Isphording³

et al. 2015

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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This study examines how reflective functioning (RF) can be assessed in analytic sessions and throughout psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The goals are to replicate in part a study by Josephs and colleagues (2004) by applying the RF Scale to analytic sessions and to study fluctuations of RF within each session. Additionally, RF based on sessions was compared with the RF ratings based on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) during the course of two psychoanalytic psychotherapies with a duration of 240 hours. RF changes based on 10 sessions per patient, assessed at baseline and after 80, 160, and 240 hours of therapy, and RF changes based on AAI ratings measured at baseline and after 240 hours of therapy, and in one case at follow-up, were related to changes of symptoms and attachment classifications over time. Results showed that in both cases RF fluctuated within sessions. The average RF rating per session increased over the course of treatment, while the AAI-based RF rating needed longer to increase. Rather good correspondence was found between session-based RF ratings and independent AAI-based RF ratings. In both cases, changes in RF over time were compared to changes in attachment classification based on the AAI and to symptomatic change. Better correspondence between symptomatic and attachment changes was found with the AAI-based RF rating. It was tentatively interpreted that session-based RF ratings may represent a state of RF that is strongly influenced by the therapist-patient interaction, whereas AAI-based RF can be considered to have more trait characteristics.

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“…For this study, the PQS (Jones, 1985) was adapted to assess common factors occurring in the cognitive and supportive group therapies by a team led by two doctoral level psychologists (D. Hope and W. Spaulding) with experience in treatment outcome research. A Q-sort instrument was chosen since it allows for a descriptive, yet quantitative, method for comparing relative similarities and differences across groups.…”

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“…The difficulty in addressing questions about common factors is that so few procedures have been developed to measure common factors quantitatively across therapy modalities. One way of investigating the differences in these common factor elements is to use a measure similar to Jones' Psychotherapy Process Q-sort (PQS;Jones, 1985). Q-sort instruments involve items being sorted into a forced distribution allowing for a quantitative evaluation of characteristic and uncharacteristic items.…”

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Discriminating Between Cognitive and Supportive Group Therapies for Chronic Mental Illness

Hayes

Hope²,

Terryberry-Spohr³

et al. 2006

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This descriptive and comparative study employed a Q-sort process to describe common factors of therapy in two group therapies for inpatients with chronic mental illness. While pharmacological treatments for chronic mental illness are prominent, there is growing evidence that cognitive therapy is also efficacious. Groups examined were part of a larger study comparing the added benefits of cognitive versus supportive group therapy to the treatment milieu. In general, items described the therapist's attitudes and behaviors, the participants' attitudes and behaviors, or the group interactions. Results present items that were most and least characteristic of each therapy and items that discriminate between the two modalities. Therapists in both groups demonstrated good therapy skills. However, the cognitive group was described as being more motivated and active than the supportive group, indicating that the groups differed in terms of common as well as specific factors of treatment.

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Psychotherapy Process Q Sort

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Measuring melancholia: the utility of a prototypic symptom approach

Measuring melancholia: the utility of a prototypic symptom approach

Changes in Reflective Functioning during Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies

Discriminating Between Cognitive and Supportive Group Therapies for Chronic Mental Illness

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