Manual for Transference Work Scale; a micro-analytical tool for therapy process analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present paper is a manual for the Transference Work Scale (TWS). The inter-rater agreement on the 26 TWS items was good to excellent and previously published. TWS is a therapy process rating scale focusing on Transference Work (TW) (i.e. analysis of the patient-therapist relationship). TW is considered a core active ingredient in dynamic psychotherapy. Adequate process scales are needed to identify and analyze in-session effects of therapist techniques in psychodynamic psychotherapy and empirically establish their links to outcome. TWS was constructed to identify and categorize relational (transference) interventions, and explore the in-session impact of analysis of the patient-therapist relationship (transference work). TWS has sub scales that rate timing, content,

SUBMITTER: Ulberg R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4236796 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature