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Dimensions of psychotherapy session impact across sessions and across clients
Author(s) -
Stiles William B.,
Snow James Steven
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb00627.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , mood , outcome (game theory) , arousal , clinical psychology , variation (astronomy) , perception , psychotherapist , applied psychology , social psychology , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science , astrophysics
The Session Evaluation Questionnaire measures two dimensions of participants' perceptions of psychotherapy sessions, depth and smoothness , and two dimensions of post‐session mood, positivity and arousal. In ratings by therapists and in ratings by clients, the same dimensions were identified as underlying variation across sessions and variation across clients. Thus these ‘impact’ dimensions can be used for session‐level comparisons with process variables and for client‐level comparisons with outcome variables, possibly permitting two‐stage inferences from process to impact to outcome.