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Assessing alliance ruptures and resolutions in patients with personality disorders
No full textThe frequency of therapeutic alliance ruptures greatly vary in relation to patient pathology. Clinical and empirical literature suggests that patients with personality disorders (PDs) tend to manifest greater problems in the maintenance of the therapeutic alliance than patients characterized by lower levels of personality pathology (Bender, 2005; Lingiardi, Filippucci, & Baiocco, 2005; Smith, Hilsenroth, Fiori, & Bornstein, 2014). Moreover, empirical evidence suggests that patients with PDs, characterized by inflexible patterns of emotional and interpersonal difficulties that could lead to dramatic in-session fluctuations of mental states, invariably pose great challenges to psychotherapists, especially with regard to the negotiation of the therapeutic alliance (Benjamin & Karpiak, 2002; Levy, Beeney, Wasserman, & Clarkin, 2010). The aims of the study was to describe the scale-revision process, to evaluate interrater reliability and scale validity comparing sessions of patients with and without personality disorders (PDs). Hypothesis; Patients with PDs will show a greater number of alliance ruptures and a smaller number of collaborative processes than patients without PD. Method: Three raters evaluated blind a sample of 60 sessions (180 segments; 3,607 narrative units) with 30 patients (15 had a PD diagnosis and 15 had a DSM-5 clinical syndrome diagnosis without PDs). Results: Interrater reliability results ranged from acceptable to excellent and were comparable with the former version. Patients with PDs showed a greater number of alliance ruptures and a smaller number of collaborative processes than patients without PDs. Moreover, therapists presented more negative interventions with the PD sample than in the non-PD group. Conclusions: The results indicate that the CIS–R is a reliable rating system and is useful in both empirical research and clinical assessments
Assessing ruptures and resolutions of therapeutic alliance in patients with and without personality disorders
No full textInterventi del terapeuta, meccanismi di difesa e rotture dell'alleanza terapeutica nel trattamento di pazienti distimici
No full textA revised version of the Collaborative Interaction Scale: reliability and convergent validity Scale: reliability and convergent validity
No full textThe first aim of this study is to present a revised version of the Collaborative Interactions Scales. The most important
changes are: faster scoring, reduction of scoring categories and introduction of new and more
specific markers to rate patient collaboration. The second aim is to present data about validity and
reliability. The sample consists of 80 psychotherapy sessions of different types of theoretical
orientations. Six raters scored independently and randomly both the CIS and the new revised form.
Results suggested that inter rater reliability was higher with the CIS revised form, the scoring time
was shorter and convergent validity with CIS was good. Finally we will discuss clinical and
empirical implications of the findings
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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