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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2014 Oct 27;27(1):314–325. doi: 10.1037/pas0000037

Table 2.

TPOCS-RS Item Descriptions and Interrater Reliability

TPOCS-RS Item Description ICC
Cognitive Subscale 0.94
General Cognitive Focus: Extent to which a therapist uses cognitive interventions in a session. 0.92
Cognitive Education: Teaches cognitive model/Identifies how the cognitive model applies to an aspect of the client’s life. 0.88
Cognitive Distortion: Teaches/encourages client to identify/restructure cognitive distortions. 0.93
Coping Skills: Teaches/encourages client to use coping skills (e.g., problem-solving skills). 0.90
Behavioral Subscale 0.94
General Behavioral Focus: Extent to which the therapist employs behavioral interventions. 0.92
Functional Analysis of Behavior: Performs functional analysis/teaches A-B-C model. 0.29
Relaxation Interventions: Teaches/encourages client to use relaxation. 0.96
Respondent Interventions: Develops a fear hierarchy and/or performs an exposure. 0.95
Operant Strategies: Teaches principles of operant interventions, sets up operant system, or employs operant intervention. 0.84
Skill Building: Interventions that focus on building behavioral skills (e.g., social skills). 0.86
Behavioral Activation: Teaches/demonstrates relation between pleasant activities and mood improvement or assigns participation in a pleasant event to improve mood. 0.00
Monitoring: The therapist elicits measurements of a client’s mood, functioning, or experience, or encourages a client to monitor his/her mood. 0.87
Modeling: Teaches specific skills using observational learning methods. 0.80
Psychodynamic Subscale 0.74
Psychodynamic Focus: Extent to which the therapist employs psychodynamic interventions. 0.76
Addresses Transference: Discusses or interprets the client’s interaction with the therapist. 0.71
Explores Past: Discusses client’s past experiences. 0.63
Addressing Client Resistance: Identifies/processes client’s resistance to therapy and/or resistance to change. 0.63
Interpretation: Comments on client behavior and/or relates that behavior to an aspect of the client’s characteristics, general functioning, and/or past experiences. 0.73
Family Subscale 0.94
General Family Focus: Extent to which the therapist employs family interventions in a session. 0.94
Targets Other Participants: Participants other than the target child are asked to modify their affect, behavior, cognitions. 0.95
Recruits Others: Tries to recruit/retain parents and other family members for future sessions. 0.54
Parenting Style: Helps and/or encourages parents to modify their parenting practices. 0.71
Multiparticipant Interactions: Establishes/teaches/discusses in-session interactions. 0.87
Family Members’ Roles: Therapist teaches or emphasizes how problems may be caused/maintained by family dynamics. 0.82
Client-Centered Subscale 0.72
General Client-Centered Focus: Extent to which the therapist validates client’s feelings or elicits client’s perspective. 0.62
Validates Client: Validates client’s feelings and/or treatment goals. 0.64
Positive Regard: Responds to client in warm and compassionate manner. 0.77
Client Perspective: Attempts to understand client’s point of view/Probes for client’s unique perspective. 0.63
General Items
Rehearsal: Encourages client to participate in hypothetical enactments. 0.86
Homework: Assigns and/or reviews homework assignments. 0.87
Play/Art Therapy: Therapist utilizes play or art as a form of therapy. 0.83
Encourages Affect: Discusses affect and/or encourages client to express affect. 0.72
Session Goals: Establishes/reviews session goals. 0.66
Treatment Goals: Establish treatment goals/Encourage client to discuss treatment goals. 0.82
Previous Themes: Comments on themes from previous sessions/builds on past successes. 0.60
Psychoeducation: Teaches client about general psychological principles (e.g., anxiety). 0.84
Questioning: Therapist asks about general topics. 0.72
Self-Disclosure: Therapist provides information about his/her personal life, feelings, experiences. 0.80
Advice: Therapist provides the client with precise instructions on how to address a specific issue. 0.68
Coaching: Therapist makes efforts to actively direct the client as they practice a specific skill. 0.88
Assessment: Therapist gathers data about psychiatric, social, academic, or medical problems. 0.69

Note. TPOCS-RS = The Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy – Revised Strategies Scale; ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient.