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Using Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral, And Control Mastery Prototypes To Predict Change: A New Look At An Old Paradigm For Long-Term Single-Case Research, Nnamdi Pole, J. Stuart Ablon, Lynn E. O'Connor

Psychology: Faculty Publications

This article illustrates a method of testing models of change in individual long-term psychotherapy cases. A depressed client was treated with 208 sessions of control mastery therapy (CMT), an unmanualized approach that integrates elements of psychodynamic therapy (PDT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Panels of experts developed prototypes of ideal PDT, CBT, and CMT process using the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS; J. S. Ablon & E. E. Jones, 1999; E. E. Jones, L. A. Parke, & S. Pulos, 1992; E. E. Jones & S. M. Pulos, 1993). Independent observers rated every 4th session (N = 53) with the PQS. Using …