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[Static to sequential plan analysis]
K Richter1, G Schiepek, M Köhler
1Psychologisches Institut I, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie
|January 1, 1995
Summary
Plan Analysis offers insights into client-therapist interactions but is static. A modified approach, Sequential Plan Analysis (SPA), provides a dynamic, single-case analysis of psychotherapy processes.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychotherapy Research
- Clinical Psychology
Context:
- Client-therapist relationship dynamics
- Interactional engagement in therapy
- Limitations of static plan analysis
Purpose:
- To modify existing Plan Analysis for dynamic assessment
- To introduce Sequential Plan Analysis (SPA) for psychotherapy process research
- To enable idiographic, discovery-oriented single-case analysis
Summary:
- Plan Analysis, while useful for understanding client-therapist interaction, provides only a static diagnosis of interpersonal intentions.
- This study details modifications to Plan Analysis to achieve a dynamic assessment of the client-therapist relationship.
- The resulting method, Sequential Plan Analysis (SPA), offers an idiographic, discovery-oriented strategy for single-case psychotherapy process analysis, generating sequential interactional plan patterns and quantitative time series data.
Impact:
- Facilitates a deeper, dynamic understanding of individual psychotherapy processes.
- Provides a novel methodology for single-case research in clinical psychology.
- Enhances the analysis of interactional patterns within the therapeutic relationship.