Another way to think about psychological change : experiential vs. incremental
(2016) In European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 18(3). p.228-251- Abstract
The traditional pre-post treatment difference reflects an incremental notion of change, where a quantity of some psychological function is added to (or subtracted from) a pretreatment quantity. This study presents a complementary, experiential notion of change. Rather than a difference, change is a feeling or experience of having changed, a feeling that one is different than before. Based on a post-treatment interview the Change after Psychotherapy (CHAP) is a method to quantify/rate such ‘differentness’ in terms of how extensively or radically the patient feels having changed. A pre-post quasi-experimental study (N = 49) comparing the CHAP with ratings on the Global Assessment of Functioning, the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile and... (More)
The traditional pre-post treatment difference reflects an incremental notion of change, where a quantity of some psychological function is added to (or subtracted from) a pretreatment quantity. This study presents a complementary, experiential notion of change. Rather than a difference, change is a feeling or experience of having changed, a feeling that one is different than before. Based on a post-treatment interview the Change after Psychotherapy (CHAP) is a method to quantify/rate such ‘differentness’ in terms of how extensively or radically the patient feels having changed. A pre-post quasi-experimental study (N = 49) comparing the CHAP with ratings on the Global Assessment of Functioning, the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale-Self-Affective is reported. The results showed the CHAP to be a reliable, valid and sensitive way to assess an experiential kind of CHAP.
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- Sandell, Rolf LU and Wilczek, Alexander
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-07-02
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Change measurement, experiential change, gain scores, pre-post differences, retrospective assessment, ‘direct’ measurement
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- European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 24 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
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- wos:000392949900003
- scopus:84984706248
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- 1364-2537
- DOI
- 10.1080/13642537.2016.1214163
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- English
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