[Reports and clarification of "critical incidents" as promoting factors in psychotherapy. A process-efficiency study between psychodynamic and client-centered treatment of patients]. / Berichte über und Klärung von "kritischen Ereignissen" als Wirkfaktoren in der Psychotherapie. Eine Prozess-Effizienz-Studie zwischen psychodynamisch und klientzentriert behandelten Patienten.

ABSTRACT

Our investigation assays if (i) the patient's thematization of and (ii) the attained degree of psychological clarification of "critical incidents" (sensu Rice & Saperia) covariate with favourable outcomes of psychotherapies. The sample consisted of 16 short psychotherapies (maximum 30 sessions), half of which treated with client centered (= CC) and the other half with psychodynamic (= PT) psychotherapy. These had been classified in a previous investigation (on the basis of questionnaire scores in 5 points in time, covering 12 years) into 8 differing time courses. Significant results are "Critical incidents" were more often found in PT than in CC, reciprocally "psychological clarification" was higher in CC. In sessions rated "good" and in the 10 "ameliorating" time courses "critical incidents" were more frequent than in their respective countergroup. A crass exception was furnished by the "deteriorating" subgroup's quite high frequencies.