Development of an Adherence Scale for Differentiation between Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Abstract

Especially in the realm of unmanualized outcome studies comparing psychodynamic treatment models (e.g., psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy), assessment of adherence is still a problem due to the broad overlap between such models, in both theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation. The aim of this study is to create an adherence scale of high discriminant power for differentiation between the psychodynamic pole and the psychoanalytic pole of psychotherapeutic technique.