TA Treatment of Depression: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study - 'Peter'

Abstract

Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) is a systematic case study research method involving the cross-examination of mixed method data to generate both plausible arguments that the client changed due to therapy and alternative explanations. The present study uses HSCED to investigate the outcome of short-term TA psychotherapy with a young man with severe depression. The objective of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of short-term TA therapy for the treatment of depression and to explore and identify key aspects of the TA therapy process and associated factors promoting change amongst effective cases. To enhance rigour and to address potential for researcher allegiance, independent psychotherapy researchers have adjudicated the case and offer a verdict on outcome. The conclusion of the adjudicators is that the client changed considerably-substantially, and that these changes were substantially due to the effect of therapy.The author provides detailed appendices to encourage others to replicate the research and add to the body of knowledge based on the HSCED process.

TA Treatment of Depression: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study - ‘Tom’

“…This present study once again found TA psychotherapy to be an effective treatment for depression and supports the previous TA research by Fetsch & Sprinkle (1982), van Rijn et al (2011) and Widdowson (2012a;2012b) and significantly adds to the TA evidence base by providing a third positive outcome systematic case study, thus enabling TA to be considered for recognition as possibly efficacious for the treatment of depression (Chambless & Hollon, 1998). …”

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“…This present study once again found TA psychotherapy to be an effective treatment for depression and supports the previous TA research by Fetsch & Sprinkle (1982), van Rijn et al (2011) and Widdowson (2012a;2012b) and significantly adds to the TA evidence base by providing a third positive outcome systematic case study, thus enabling TA to be considered for recognition as possibly efficacious for the treatment of depression (Chambless & Hollon, 1998). …”

TA Treatment of Depression: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study - ‘Penelope’

“…This article is the second of a series of three and represents an Italian systematic replication of previous UK-based findings (Widdowson 2012a(Widdowson , 2012b(Widdowson , 2012c(Widdowson , 2013 investigating the effectiveness of transactional analysis (TA) treatment of depression. This case was run under the auspices of the project 'Toward a transactional analysis psychotherapy recognised as empirically supported treatment: an Italian replication series design', funded by the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA).…”

“…Systematic case study research has already been applied to investigate TA effectiveness with people with long term health conditions (McLeod, 2013a;2013b) and HSCED methodology have been already successfully applied to TA and widely described in this Journal by Widdowson (2012a). Recently, several HSCEDs supporting TA treatment for depression (Widdowson, 2012a(Widdowson, , 2012b(Widdowson, , 2012c(Widdowson, , 2013 have been published, as was an additional adjudicated study which demonstrated effectiveness of TA for mixed depression and anxiety (Widdowson, 2014).…”

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AbstractThis study is the second of a series of three, and represents an Italian replication of a previous UK -based case series (Widdowson 2012a(Widdowson , 2012b(Widdowson , 2012c(Widdowson , 2013

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