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Investigating The Inner Experience Of Individuals Attending Psychotherapy At A Community Mental Health Center, Stefanie A. Moynihan
Investigating The Inner Experience Of Individuals Attending Psychotherapy At A Community Mental Health Center, Stefanie A. Moynihan
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Although psychotherapy outcome studies sometimes use qualitative methods (e.g., interviews and traditional sampling methods), the majority of those studies rely mainly on quantitative methods (e.g., retrospective self-report progress-monitoring questionnaires), even when investigating clients’ experience of treatment. However, there are reasons to believe that both qualitative and quantitative methods are substantially flawed—both interviews and self-report questionnaires investigating experience can yield substantially inconsistent findings in comparison to careful, descriptive sampling-based methods such as Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES). To date, there are neither qualitative nor quantitative published studies that explore the everyday, natural inner experience of psychotherapy clients. The current study used DES, …