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. 2015 Nov 10;6:1705. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01705

Table 2.

Microanalytic measures referring to psychodynamic therapy.

Instrument source Basis Theoretical orientation Objective within the development Short description Assessment mode Raters Definition of scales Valuation
Objectivity Reliability Validity
Analytic process scales (APS; Waldron et al., 2004a) 18 years of bottom-up development, regular meetings over several years; PIRS (Cooper and Bond, 1992; Milbrath et al., 1999), VPPS (O'Malley et al., 1983), TVII (Koenigsberg et al., 1985, 1988), Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (Jones and Windholz, 1990)
AP
Examine changes occurring over time in psycho-analytic treatments and what features of patient and analyst account for these changes
4 categories:
1. types of intervention (encourage elaboration, clarify, make an interpretation, provide support)
2. aims of intervention (patient's defense, patient's reaction to the analyst/analytic situation, patient's conflicts, romantic/sexual issues, aggressive/hostile issues, developmental focus, self-esteem issues)
3. other characteristics (confronting, feelings of the analyst, analyst's intervention amicable, analyst's intervention hostile)
4. quality of the intervention (follow the patient's immediate emotional focus, good intervention)
m (5-point Likert scale), segment of session
O
APS Coding Manual (80 pages) available at www.ipa.org.uk or from the author: woodywald@earthlink.net
A B B
Coding of therapist statement (Connolly et al., 1998) /
SE
To classify therapist statements into general categories consistent with the techniques of SE therapy
4 categories:
1. interpretation
2. clarification
3. question
4. other;
for interpretation, additionally time frame (childhood past, adult past, present) and persons included (therapist, parents, significant other, self, no other person) are detected
d, speaking turn
O
No coding manual pub-lished; definition of categories in (Connolly et al., 1998)
C A B
Malan intervention typology (MIT; Malan, 1963, cited from Silberschatz et al., 1986) /
PDT
To assess interpretations and their impact on therapy outcome
2 scales:
1. interpretation (parent, other, self; transference vs. non-transference)
2. non-interpretation
d, statement
O
No coding manual published; description within (Malan, 1963, 1976)
C B C
Psychotherapy Interaction Coding System (PIC; McCullough, 1988, cited from Town et al., 2012b) /
PDT
To examine therapist interventions and the impact of these interventions in dynamic orientated therapies
2 scales:
1. 8 process codes: question, information, self-disclosure, clarification, directive, support, interpretation, confrontation
2. 4 content codes: defenses, anxieties, impulse/feeling, no content
d, response
O
Coding manual: (McCullough, 1988); description of categories: (Town et al., 2012a)
A B C
Psychodynamic Interventions Rating Scale (PIRS; Cooper and Bond, 1992, cited from Milbrath et al., 1999) Among others: ITS (Gaston and Ring, 1992)
PDT
To examine microprocesses in expressive and psychodynamic therapies regarding specific types of interpretive interventions
2 scales:
1. interpretive interventions: defense, transference
2. supportive interventions: acknowledgments, clarification, questions, associations, reflections, work-enhancing strategies, supporting strategies, contractual arrangements
d, m for interpretative interventions (5-point Likert scale), utterance
O
Coding manual exists as unpub-lished manual; categories within (Banon et al., 2001)
B A B
Therapist intervention rating system
(TIRS; Piper et al., 1987)
Review of existing rating scales, (e.g., (Strupp, 1966; Luborsky et al., 1979; Marziali and Sullivan, 1980);
PDT)
To reliably identify interpretations (intervention defined as “interpretive” when there is reference to a “dynamic component”)
10 categories:
1. noninterventions 4 noninterpretive lower categories without reference to patient's experience:
2. formal
3. information providing
4. information requesting
5. directive 1 noninterpretive lower category (with partial reference to patient's experience):
6. nondynamic component 4 interpretive upper categories with reference to patient's internal conflict:
7. single dynamic component
8. double dynamic component
9. triple dynamic component
10. quadruple dynamic component (dynamic components: wish, fear, defensive process, dynamic expression)
d, statement
O
Coding manual exists as unpublished manuscript, available from the first author; description of categories with examples within (Piper et al., 1987)
A B C

m, metric; d, dichotomous; O, observer; SE, supportive-expressive dynamic psychotherapy; AP, analytic psychotherapy; PDT, psychodynamic therapy; PIRS, Psychodynamic Intervention Rating Scale; VPPS, Vanderbilt Psychotherapy Process Scale; TVII, Therapist verbal Interventions Inventory. Evaluation criteria: A, no limitations; B, some restrictions; C, severe deficits (see text of the manuscript for details).