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  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Research

Background:

  • Current clinical assessment often lacks integration across personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy.
  • A need exists for a unified framework to understand complex clinical dynamics.

Observation:

  • The interpersonal situation model provides a conceptual framework for organizing multimethod, multitimescale data.
  • Assessment methods are detailed for variables manifesting across personality levels, situations, and within situations.

Findings:

  • Applying the interpersonal situation model enhances case conceptualization and hypothesis evaluation in psychotherapy.
  • A case study illustrates the practical application and challenges of dynamic assessment in clinical practice.

Implications:

  • This approach facilitates a more sophisticated clinical practice through routine assessment of dynamic processes.
  • Further research is needed to refine dynamic assessment strategies in psychotherapy.