The use of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method in describing and comparing gestalt and rational emotive behavior therapy with adolescents

Agin, Stacey; Fodor, Iris E.

doi:10.1007/bf02238268

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“…Previous studies have used this method to assess the relationship between internal representations of relationships and symptoms in adult samples (Cierpka et al, 1998;McCarthy, Connolly Gibbons, & Barber, 2008;Wilczek et al, 2004). Although the CCRT method has been modified for use with children , only a few studies have used it to focus on psychotherapy processes in young people (Agin & Fodor, 1996;Tishby, Raitchick, & Shefler, 2007;Waldinger et al 2002).…”

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Adolescents in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Changes in internal representations of relationships with parents

Slonim

Shefler

Slonim

et al. 2013

Psychotherapy Research

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This study explored whether and how internal representations of adolescents' relationship with their parents--a fundamental concept in psychodynamic theory--changed in the course of a year of treatment and whether the observed changes were related to changes in symptoms. Seventy two adolescents (ages 15-18; 30 in treatment and 42 in a non-treatment "community group") underwent Relationship Anecdote Paradigm (RAP) interviews according to the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method (CCRT; Luborsky & Crits-Christoph, 1998) and completed outcome measures at two time points. A novel data-driven approach to clustering CCRT categories was used to characterize internal representations. The potential contribution of this approach to the CCRT method is discussed. The results indicate that adolescents' internal representations of their relationships with their parents changed significantly throughout treatment, and were related to changes in symptoms.

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