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Suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy: validation of the Dynamic Assessment Interview (DAI)
Author(s) -
Valbak K.,
Rosenbaum B.,
Hougaard E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1046/j.0001-690x.2003.00249.x
Subject(s) - alliance , psychology , predictive validity , rating scale , clinical psychology , psychoanalytic theory , psychotherapist , scale (ratio) , outcome (game theory) , psychometrics , test validity , developmental psychology , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
Objective: To examine the predictive validity of a particular interview and rating scale of patient suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy: The Dynamic Assessment Interview (DAI) scale. Method: Seventy‐four psychiatric out‐patients were interviewed with the DAI and the associations between DAI‐scores and measures of outcome and of therapeutic alliance were investigated. Results: Small to moderate correlations were found between the DAI suitability score and outcome (0.06–0.46) and between DAI suitability score and early rated alliance (0.14–0.45). The predictive value of the DAI‐score was limited although on a par with the alliance measures used in the study. No other pretherapy predictor variable investigated was found significantly to predict outcome. Conclusion: The predictive power of the DAI measure was limited, a result, which is in agreement with results from former studies on suitability.