"That in your hands". A comprehensive process analysis of a significant event in psychotherapy.

Full Abstract

This article illustrates a new approach to the study of change processes in psychotherapy. The approach involves selecting significant change events and analyzing them according to the Comprehensive Process Model. In this model, client and therapist behaviors are analyzed for content, interpersonal action, style and response quality by using information derived from Interpersonal Process Recall, client and therapist objective process ratings and qualitative analyses. The event selected for analysis in this paper was rated by client and therapist as significantly helpful. The focal therapist response was a reflective-interpretive intervention in which the therapist collaboratively and evocatively expanded the client's implicit meanings. The event involved working through an earlier insight and realization of progress by the client. The event suggests an association between subjective "felt shifts" and public "process shifts" in client in-therapy behaviors. A model, consistent with Gendlin's experiential psychotherapy (1970), is offered to describe the change process which occurred in this event.

Author information

Author/s: Elliott, R (R);

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychiatry (Psychiatry), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1983-May; vol 46 (issue 2) : pp 113-29

Dates: Created 1983/07/15; Completed 1983/07/15; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 6856715, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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