Citation

Ulberg R, Amlo S, Critchfield KL, Marble A, Høglend P. Psychotherapy 2014; 51(2): 258-269.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0034708

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Interpreting the transference has been considered a core ingredient in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The effects of analyzing the transference are probably dependent on certain characteristics of the interventions themselves and the context in which transference interventions are given. The present study describes the development and use of a therapy process rating scale (Transference Work Scale; TWS) constructed to identify, categorize, and explore work with the transference. TWS has subscales that rate timing, content, and valence of the transference interventions, as well as response from the patient. Transcribed segments (10 min) from 51 different patients were scored with TWS by 2 independent raters. The interrater agreement on the TWS items was good to excellent. Clinical examples of transference work were also rated using the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB). TWS and SASB supplement each other. TWS might be a potentially useful tool to explore the interaction of timing, category, and valence of transference work in predicting in-session patient response as well as treatment outcome. © 2014 American Psychological Association.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Adult; Female; Male; adult; Norway; human; female; male; Health Personnel; Treatment Outcome; Professional-Patient Relations; psychotherapy; depression; randomized controlled trial; suicide attempt; Follow-Up Studies; treatment outcome; Psychotherapy; psychology; Observer Variation; shame; article; major clinical study; psychoanalysis; controlled study; clinical practice; personality disorder; rating scale; human relation; anxiety disorder; self concept; doctor patient relation; follow up; health care personnel; guilt; transference; observer variation; psychotherapist; Psychoanalysis; treatment response; outcome assessment; Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders; vignette; Symptom Checklist 90; interrater reliability; procedures; Transference (Psychology); experimental study; randomized controlled trial (topic); work experience; psychodynamic psychotherapy; Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic; Psychodynamic; Likert scale; In-session process; Test development; Transference interpretations; transference work scale; Transference Work Scale