The psychotherapist's prognosis and the clinical interventions in generalized anxiety disorder

JUAN, SANTIAGO; LEIBOVICH DE DUARTE, ADELA; ROUSSOS, ANDRES

Asilomar, California

Congreso; 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research,; 2010

Society for Psychotherapy Research

The poster presents an ongoing research project focused in the relationship between prognostic inferences and interventions, in psychotherapists from two different theoretical frameworks (psychoanalytic and cognitive). For the recollection of the data, participants listen to an analog clinical material, consisting of a first session of a treatment. The stimuli material was designed to 129 accomplish the Generalized Anxiety Disorder diagnostic criteria (DSM IV-TR). Semi-structured interviews are being made with each participant. Psychotherapists are asked about the interventions they would use in the case, and the prognostic inferences they could propose about it. The techniques used for the analysis of the data are the Multi-Dimensional Classification of Psychotherapeutic Interventions (Roussos, Etchebarne y Waizmann, 2005), and the Clinical Inferences Classification (Leibovich de Duarte et al., 2002). The objective of this research is to explore the link between prognostic inferences and types of interventions, evaluating also frequency and proportion of specific and non-specific interventions in psychoanalytic and cognitive orientated psychotherapists.