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Niccolò Fiorentino Polipo¹, Jochem Willemsen¹, Marie Hustinx¹

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Didactic training can enhance specific psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills in psychology students. This study shows these skills are distinct from generic case conceptualization, indicating targeted training is effective.

Keywords:

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Background:

Time-limited didactic interventions effectively build generic case conceptualization skills.
The study investigates if similar interventions can develop treatment-specific case conceptualization skills.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills can be taught via didactic intervention.
To ascertain if these skills are distinct from generic case conceptualization abilities.

Main Methods:

University psychology students were randomized into a target group (n=62) and a control group (n=62).
The target group received training in psychoanalytic case conceptualization using the operators model.
The control group received training in generic case conceptualization using the 5 Ps model.

Main Results:

Both groups showed increased self-efficacy in case conceptualization.
The target group demonstrated a significantly greater improvement in psychoanalytic case conceptualization and clinical inference abilities.
The 5 Ps model was significantly more acceptable to students than the operators model.

Conclusions:

This randomized controlled trial (RCT) provides the first evidence that psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills can be developed through didactic teaching.
Psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills are specific and not inherently improved by learning generic case conceptualization skills.