Study Gurman (1972): study US 1970
- Public
- Student psychotherapists, Columbia University, USA, 1970
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 12
- Non Response
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- Assessment
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Content analysis
Content analysis of psychotherapy sessions and structured questionnaire.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Therapist's functioning
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Rating of individual therapy sessions (recorded on audiotapes) by 3 advanced graduate students in counseling psychology.
Two 4-minute segments from each of 24 tapes were rated independently by the raters for each variable. The average of these ratings per scale per therapist was used. Inter-rater reliabilities ranged from .69 to .97.
Scales from Truax & Carkhuff 1967.