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Falk Leichsenring1, Stuart Ablon2, Jacques P Barber3
1a Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy , Justus-Liebig-University Giessen , Giessen , Germany.
Objective:
A Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS) prototype characteristic of short-term psychodynamic therapy (STPP) does not yet exist.
Method:
Experts in supportive-expressive (SE) therapy used the 100-Item PQS questionnaire to rate an ideal short-term SE therapy.
Results:
Agreement between raters was high (Cronbach's alpha = 0.94). The prototype for SE therapy showed a significant correlation with the psychoanalytic prototype, but with 28% of variance explained, the majority of variance of the former was not explained by the latter or vice versa. Furthermore, the SE prototype showed significant correlations with the cognitive-behavioral prototype and the prototype of interpersonal therapy by Ablon and Jones (r = 0.69, 0.43).
Conclusions:
We recommend using the PQS prototype presented here for future process research on STPP.
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