| Abstract: | Coded the interventions of 19 family therapy trainees with a videotaped simulated family and with families they were treating, and compared them at 3 points in time. The coding categories were drive, interpretation, average length of speech, number of speeches, and average silence. Spearman rhos revealed stability over time for all categories except drive and interpretation, within real and simulated situations. Drive was stable only in the real situation and interpretation only in the simulated one. Correlations between situations within categories were largely nonsignificant, suggesting that therapists differ in their responses to the absence of feedback from a family. Available evidence suggests that the frequency with which family therapists trained in the dynamic interactional approach use interpretation might predict their success with families otherwise likely to terminate treatment prematurely. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
