This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Therapist Response Questionnaire for Adolescents (TRQ-A; Satir, Thompson-Brenner, Boisseau, & Crisafulli, 2009), an 86-item clinician-report instrument measuring a wide range of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors expressed by therapists toward their adolescent patients. A sample of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral clinicians (N = 192) filled in the TRQ-A and the latest version of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure for Adolescents (SWAP-II-A; DeFife, Malone, DiLallo, & Westen, 2013) in order to assess the personality styles/disorders of a randomly selected adolescent patient in their care. Factor analysis identified six conceptually coherent and internally consistent countertransference patterns: warm/attuned, angry/criticized, disorganized/frightened, overinvolved/worried, disengaged/hopeless, and sexualized. These patterns were significantly related to patients’ personality styles/disorders in a clinically meaningful and systematically predictable manner. The results support the TRQ-A’s validity and internal reliability in evaluating the complex portrait of multifaceted reactions that clinicians typically experience toward adolescent patients, and its potential to improve diagnostic accuracy and guide clinicians in planning effective therapeutic interventions. The TRQ-A promises to significantly contribute to this less explored research area and encourage systematic studies of youth treatment, promoting best practice for successful therapeutic outcomes.

Clinician Reactions When Working with Adolescent Patients: The Therapist Response Questionnaire for Adolescents / Tanzilli, Annalisa; Gualco, Ivan; Baiocco, Roberto; Lingiardi, Vittorio. - In: JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT. - ISSN 0022-3891. - 102:5(2020), pp. 616-627. [10.1080/00223891.2019.1674318]

Clinician Reactions When Working with Adolescent Patients: The Therapist Response Questionnaire for Adolescents

Annalisa, Tanzilli
;
Roberto, Baiocco;Vittorio, Lingiardi
2020

Abstract

This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Therapist Response Questionnaire for Adolescents (TRQ-A; Satir, Thompson-Brenner, Boisseau, & Crisafulli, 2009), an 86-item clinician-report instrument measuring a wide range of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors expressed by therapists toward their adolescent patients. A sample of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral clinicians (N = 192) filled in the TRQ-A and the latest version of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure for Adolescents (SWAP-II-A; DeFife, Malone, DiLallo, & Westen, 2013) in order to assess the personality styles/disorders of a randomly selected adolescent patient in their care. Factor analysis identified six conceptually coherent and internally consistent countertransference patterns: warm/attuned, angry/criticized, disorganized/frightened, overinvolved/worried, disengaged/hopeless, and sexualized. These patterns were significantly related to patients’ personality styles/disorders in a clinically meaningful and systematically predictable manner. The results support the TRQ-A’s validity and internal reliability in evaluating the complex portrait of multifaceted reactions that clinicians typically experience toward adolescent patients, and its potential to improve diagnostic accuracy and guide clinicians in planning effective therapeutic interventions. The TRQ-A promises to significantly contribute to this less explored research area and encourage systematic studies of youth treatment, promoting best practice for successful therapeutic outcomes.
2020
personality disorders; therapist responses; adolescence; SWAP-II-A; TRQ-A
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Clinician Reactions When Working with Adolescent Patients: The Therapist Response Questionnaire for Adolescents / Tanzilli, Annalisa; Gualco, Ivan; Baiocco, Roberto; Lingiardi, Vittorio. - In: JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT. - ISSN 0022-3891. - 102:5(2020), pp. 616-627. [10.1080/00223891.2019.1674318]
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