The Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale: Interrater Reliability and Sensitivity to Change in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Therapy

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 848-855

  Valen, Jakob ^a   Ryum, Truls ^a   Svartberg, Martin ^b   Stiles, Tore C ^a   McCullough, Leigh ^c,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Modum Bad Psychiatric Center ^*

^c MODUM BAD PSYCHIATRIC CENTER   (Norway)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive therapy; Reliability; Sensitivity; Short term dynamic psychotherapy; Treatment objectives

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACHIEVEMENT OF THERAPEUTIC OBJECTIVE SCALE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 83155173526     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023649     Document Type: Article

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