TY - JOUR
PY - 2019//
TI - 'Interaction structures' between depressed adolescents and their therapists in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy
JO - Clinical child psychology and psychiatry
A1 - Calderon, Ana
A1 - Schneider, Celeste
A1 - Target, Mary
A1 - Midgley, Nick
SP - 446
EP - 461
VL - 24
IS - 3
N2 - OBJECTIVE:: Identify the core 'interaction structures' between therapists and depressed adolescents within and across two common forms of psychotherapy.
METHOD:: A total of 70 audio-recorded psychotherapy sessions representing short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (STPP) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with youth aged 12-18 years old were coded with the Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-set (APQ), a newly developed instrument. Data included different therapist-patient dyads and stages in treatment and were analysed with cluster analysis.
RESULTS:: Three distinct interaction structures between therapists and depressed adolescents: two influenced by the therapists' techniques and one more influenced by the young people's attitude to therapy.
CONCLUSION:: When there is a collaborative working relationship between therapists and depressed young people, the therapy process is influenced by the therapists' techniques; while when there is a poor working relationship, the techniques used by therapists of different theoretical orientation become more similar with the aim of engaging the young person in the process.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1359-1045 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104518807734 ID - ref1 ER -