Evaluation of a psychotherapy case in terms of change in a relevant behavior

✍ Scribed by Henry C. Rickard; Earl C. Brown

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196001)16:1<93::aid-jclp2270160132>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

PROBLEM

Pascalc2) stresses the advantage and feasibility of dealing directly with behavioral criteria in the evaluation of psychotherapy. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that change in a specific behavior, decided upon in advance of psychotherapy, would be perceived by untrained, uninvolved judges. Incoherence of speech was chosen as the behavior to be changed since it disrupted communication both on the ward and in the therapy sessions.