Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain.
Institute of Biomedical Research in Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
PLoS One. 2018 Dec 26;13(12):e0209751. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209751. eCollection 2018.
Since the use of language is a core aspect of psychotherapy, its study requires instruments that allow for further research. The aim of this study is to present an observational instrument capable of analyzing the language used in psychotherapeutic settings, both by therapists and clients. The SICOLENTE instrument was applied to two different samples: The Three Approaches to Psychotherapy film and a naturalistic sample. 7710 utterances from 31 sessions (three from the demonstration film and 28 from a naturalistic setting) were coded. Two studies were conducted: in the first study, inter and intra coder reliability (dimension and category levels) and Generalizability theory analyzes were assessed, whilst in the second study, construct validity was tested with several hypotheses. The final instrument resulted in 20 categories with three dimensions: Conversational Act (7 categories), Therapeutic topic (6 categories) and Content (7 categories). The three dimensions showed excellent inter and intra coder reliability and the generalizability coefficients were excellent. Out of the 24 validity hypothesis proposed,19 were accepted. The finding suggests that the SICOLENTE is a reliable and valid instrument that can be applied to investigate the performance of various theoretical models. Its three dimensional structure gives it the flexibility to be able to carry out macroscopic or microscopic language research.
由于语言的使用是心理治疗的核心方面，因此其研究需要能够进一步研究的工具。本研究旨在介绍一种能够分析治疗师和客户在心理治疗环境中使用的语言的观察工具。SICOLENTE 工具应用于两个不同的样本：《三种心理治疗方法》电影和自然主义样本。对来自 31 个会话的 7710 个话语（来自示范电影的 3 个和来自自然主义环境的 28 个）进行了编码。进行了两项研究：在第一项研究中，评估了内部和内部可靠性（维度和类别级别）和概化理论分析，而在第二项研究中，通过几个假设测试了结构有效性。最终的工具产生了 20 个类别，分为三个维度：会话行为（7 个类别）、治疗主题（6 个类别）和内容（7 个类别）。三个维度显示出出色的内部和内部可靠性，广义系数也非常出色。在所提出的 24 个有效性假设中，有 19 个被接受。研究结果表明，SICOLENTE 是一种可靠且有效的工具，可以用于研究各种理论模型的性能。其三维结构使其能够进行宏观或微观语言研究。
