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 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 228-251 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 Jul 2 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Applied Psychology (including Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy)
Free keywords
- Change measurement
- experiential change
- gain scores
- pre-post differences
- retrospective assessment
- ‘direct’ measurement