Abstract

OLIVERA, Julieta; JUAN, Santiago  and  ROUSSOS, Andrés J.. THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FROM PATIENT´S PERSPECTIVE: A QUALITATIVE APPROACH. Anu. investig. [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.1, pp.43-51. ISSN 1851-1686.

Introduction: Numerous psychotherapy researchers addressed the need to complement quantitative research with qualitative approaches, in order to reach a deeper understanding of patients´ subjective experience of their treatment and its relationship with change in psychotherapy. Objectives and methods: 73 semi-structured interviews to subjects who had participated in a psychotherapeutic treatment terminated within 36 months prior to the date of interview were conducted. The aim of this observational and exploratory study was to inquire patients´ perspective of the interventions carried out by their therapists. A qualitative approach, based on Hill et al. CQR (1997) was conducted to analyze the interviews. Results and discussion: Three thematic areas emerged as a result of the analysis: 1) the perception of the overview of the treatment done by the therapist at the beginning of psychotherapy, 2) indicative vs. receptive perceived interventions, and 3) participants´ assessment of the content vs. the way in which interventions were made. Implications of these findings for clinical practice, research and training of therapists are discussed.

Keywords : Interventions; Qualitative research; Patient´s perspective.

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