[Configural methods of assessment in psychotherapy research].

The particularity of psychotherapy research implies the application of configural techniques, with respect to the developmental state of theory generation in psychotherapy especially inductive configurational approaches like GUHA or HYPAG/Search. Each variant of HYPAG (i. e. Search for non-disjunctive types, explanations of multiple relationships, elaboration of theory-related optimal suggestions for operationalization) are presented in detail and demonstrated with secondary analyses. The main problem of this approach is the requirement of large numbers of subjects. The application of this approach can hardly be recommended with less than 250 subjects.