The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons why a majority of practitioners refused to participate in a field-based psychotherapy process research project and to learn from them what would be required to enlist their future participation in this type of research. In a sample of 109 psychologists, the main reasons for refusing to participate included insufficient time, unwillingness to audiotape clients, and clients deemed inappropriate for the research. In terms of what would be required to facilitate their participation in future process research, the most common responses were more time and no recording of the therapy sessions. The implications for process research are discussed.
Fifteen licensed psychologists were asked to recall verbatim dialogue from 3 segments of an actual therapy session (first 5 min, most significant event, and last 5 min). Transcripts of the dialogue were coded for main and supporting ideas and compared with the recollected dialogue to measure the accuracy of the therapists' recall. The procedure that was developed to quantify the number of ideas present in the transcripts and the results of the recall analysis are described.
Thirty-four 1st-year counseling students recorded their inner experiences following a simulated counseling session. Using a qualitative collective case study approach to extract emotion from a large pool of inner experience, 6 judges identified samples of affect through a triangulation process using intensity, extreme, and critical case sampling and then coded them into naturally occurring core ideas and domains. Affective experiences in the inner experiences were found frequently and were often quite intense.
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