A longitudinal analysis of the effect of experience on the therapeutic approach: revisited

The published results of readministering the Therapist Orientation Questionnaire to a group of "low experience" therapists (N = 60) 4 years after an initial administration were recalculated due to scoring errors. Ss had been classified into Freudian, Sullivanian, and Rogerian schools. Differences present among schools on several TOQ factors were present initially and were mostly still there at the readministration. Although relative to each other the groups were stable, many scores shifted, essentially, away from a Freudian philosophy.