A content measure of changes attributable to psychotherapy.

White, Alice; Fichtenbaum, Leonard; Dollard, John

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1966.tb02288.x

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“…All the therapy sessions were recorded, with peimission, and the transcripts edited to remove peisonally identifying references The talk of the patient and therapist was divided into sentence units (Auld &. White, 1956) Two independent scorers assigned a category to each unit, an arbiter choosing the final score when the scorera disagreed The reliability of the four categories used was checked on one session randomlj selected from each of nine casts The two scorers agreed on 90.07% of 3,421 units (Phi coefficients for individual scoring categories have been reported m previous studies'- White et al, 1964White et al, , 1966 The frequency of each category was divided b\ thr total number of units of the patient's speech in each session. These percentage figures were then used to compute means foi groups of sessions or groups of patienti…”

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“…The categories included fome of those defined by Dollard and Auld (1959) and those described by White et al (1966), but only four categories are relevant to this study. S, positive sexual motivation, SA, sex anxiety, A/self, general anxiety about self and symptoms, and Other, all other units.…”

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“…The patients in that clinic sample, however, included such a wide range of diagnostic categories, ages, and socioeconomic levels that other factors were complexly interrelated with the amount of talk about sex. White et al (1966) made an exploratory study of the therapy sessions of one neurotic student which showed a positive correlation between units of talk scored ''sex" and units scored "sex anxiety" and a negative correlation between units scored "sex" and units scored "general anxiety about self. "…”

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Measured relationships between sexual motivation and anxiety.

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Dollard³

1967

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Dollard³

1967

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Categories for classifying language in psychotherapy.

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Stiles²

1979

Psychological Bulletin

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A review of language analysis systems employed in psychotherapy research suggests a typology based on the combination of three category types with two coding strategies. The types are (a) content categories, (b) intersubjective categories, and (c) extralinguistic categories. They are denned by distinct sets of language features. The coding strategies are (a) the classical coding strategy, in which categories describe the text, and (b) the pragmatic coding strategy, in which categories describe the speaker. A review of research results suggests that the content, intersubjective, and extralinguistic features constitute distinct channels of communication and that (a) the content channel carries information pertaining to the speaker's psychodynamic process and personality structure, (b) the intersubjective channel carries information pertaining to the quality of the speaker's relationship with the other, and (c) the extralinguistic channel carries information pertaining to the speaker's transitory emotional state. System consistency criteria are suggested for use in conjunction with the typology to evaluate categories and category systems.If the first stage in the scientific study of a phenomenon is naming and classifying, the study of verbal behavior in psychotherapy is mired in its first stage. Reviews of the psychotherapy content analysis literature (Auld

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Response productivity: A methodological problem in content analysis studies in psychotherapy.

Marsden¹,

Kalter²,

Wa³

1974

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Content analysts of psychotherapy materials have, for the most part, failed to consider the possibility that the frequency of units coded to the categories of the content analysis system might be correlated with the total number of units produced. The existence of such relationships may confound interpretation of the association between content analysis variables and other external variables. When investigators have attempted to control for response productivity, they have usually divided the frequency of units in each category by the total number of units. This procedure does not control for response productivity and is often uninterpretable. The issues involved are discussed and demonstrated, and appropriate techniques of controlling for productivity are described.

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A content measure of changes attributable to psychotherapy.

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Measured relationships between sexual motivation and anxiety.

Measured relationships between sexual motivation and anxiety.

Categories for classifying language in psychotherapy.

Response productivity: A methodological problem in content analysis studies in psychotherapy.

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