Use of Q-sort assessment methods for diagnostic purposes and in treatment evaluation

作者：Loeffler Stastka Henriette

来源：Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 2011, 57(4): 319-324.

• Q-sort Tests
• Operationalization of Psychoanalytic Theories
• Psychoanalytic Process
• PQS

Use of Q-sort assessment methods for diagnostic purposes and in treatment evaluation
Objectives: Does quantifying psychotherapy research do justice to its subject matter?
Methods: Q-sort techniques are presented for the assessment of personality pathology, mental and interpersonal problems, as well as for quantifying the psychotherapeutic process.
Results: In studies on psychotherapy planning we identified mechanisms characteristic of nonresponders which could be efficiently captured with q-sort methods. From these clinically relevant intervention techniques can be derived. In psychoanalytic process research we operationalized relevant microelements in the patient-therapist interaction.
Conclusions: Q-sort methods are efficient and helpful for studying research questions that are clinically relevant but often difficult to grasp as well as for dismantling studies. Z Psychosom Med Psychother 57/2011, 319-324

• 出版日期2011