The Therapy Process Questionnaire Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of a Multidimensional Self-Rating Scale for High-Frequency Monitoring of Psychotherapeutic Processes.

The Therapy Process Questionnaire Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of a Multidimensional Self-Rating Scale for High-Frequency Monitoring of Psychotherapeutic Processes. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2019 Jun 01;: Authors: Schiepek G, Stöger-Schmidinger B, Kronberger H, Aichhorn W, Kratzer L, Heinz P, Viol K, Lichtwarck-Aschoff A, Schöller H Abstract Many outcome measures and session-related questionnaires in psychotherapy are designed for weekly or biweekly administration. Yet today, technical developments allow for higher frequency assessments to monitor human change dynamics more closely, by daily assessments. For this purpose, the Therapy Process Questionnaire (TPQ) was developed, with a specific focus on inpatient psychotherapy. In this article, we present an explorative and confirmative factor analysis of the TPQ based on the time series data of 150 patients collected during their hospital stay (mean time series length: 69.1 measurement points). A seven factor solution was identified which explains 68.7% of variance and associates 43 items onto the factors, which are "well-being and positive emotions", "relationship with fellow patients", "therapeutic relationship and clinical setting", "emotional and problem intensity", "insight/confidence/therapeutic progress", "motivation for change", and "mindfulness/self-care". The internal consistency (Cronbach's α), the inter-item correlations of the subscales, and the discrimina...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research