A Therapy Process Coding System for Child Psychotherapy

描述(由申请人提供)：建议研究的主要目标是 建立治疗过程观察性心理测量学特征 儿童心理治疗编码系统(TPOCS)及其应用 TPOCS用于研究治疗过程和结果。TPOCS正在开发中 测量特定的(例如，治疗干预)和非特定的(例如， 治疗联盟)在儿童中显著的过程变量 心理治疗，但尚未进行观察性评估 到目前为止发展得很好。TPOCS的开发将为外地提供一个 量化儿童重要理论过程的新研究工具 并评估儿童心理治疗结果的拟议中介者。 TPOCS的心理测量学特性将使用以下样本进行评估 一如既往的心理治疗录像带，取自一项更大的正在进行的研究。一次 建立了TPOCS的心理测量学特征，TPOCS量表将 用于研究治疗中理论上感兴趣的三个关键问题 过程研究：(A)是一些治疗过程(即，具体和 非特定)与治疗参与度有关？(B)做一些治疗过程 预测患儿变化？S治疗后结局如何？(C)是否有联系 在治疗过程和儿童之间？S介导的治疗后结果 治疗约定？

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):The main goals of the proposed study are to establish the psychometric properties of the Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy (TPOCS) and to assess applications of the TPOCS to the study of therapy process and outcome. The TPOCS is being developed to measure specific (e.g., therapeutic interventions) and nonspecific (e.g., therapeutic alliance) process variables that are prominent in child psychotherapy but for which observational assessment has not been well-developed to date. Development of the TPOCS will provide the field with a new research tool to quantify theoretically important processes in child psychotherapy and to assess proposed mediators of child psychotherapy outcome. The psychometric properties of the TPOCS will be assessed using a sample of treatment-as-usual psychotherapy tapes drawn from a larger ongoing study. Once the psychometric properties of the TPOCS are established, the TPOCS scales will be used to investigate three key questions of theoretical interest in therapy process research: (a) Are some therapy processes (i.e., specific and non-specific) associated with therapy engagement? (b) Do some therapy processes predict changes in children?s post-treatment outcomes? (c) Are the linkages between therapy processes and children?s posttreatment outcomes mediated by therapy engagement?