An adjudicated hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study of experiential therapy for panic/phobia

Robert Elliott; Rhea Partyka; Rebecca Alperin; Robert Dobrenski; John Wagner; Stanley B. Messer; Jeanne C. Watson; Louis G. Castonguay

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An adjudicated hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study of experiential therapy for panic/phobia

Robert Elliott, Rhea Partyka, Rebecca Alperin, Robert Dobrenski, John Wagner, Stanley B. Messer, Jeanne C. Watson, Louis G. Castonguay

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This paper illustrates the application of an adjudicated form of Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design (HSCED), a critical-reflective method for inferring change and therapeutic influence in single therapy cases. The client was a 61 year-old European-American male diagnosed with panic and bridge phobia. He was seen for 23 sessions of individual Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy. In this study, affirmative and skeptic teams of researchers developed opposing arguments regarding whether the client changed over therapy and whether therapy was responsible for these changes. Three judges representing different theoretical orientations then assessed data and arguments, rendering judgments in favor of the affirmative side. We discuss clinical implications and recommendations for the future interpretive case study research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	543-557
Number of pages	15
Journal	Psychotherapy Research
Volume	19
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10503300902905947
Publication status	Published - 22 Sept 2009

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experiential psychotherapy
existential psychotherapy
humanistic psychotherapy
anxiety
outcome research
process research
qualitative research methods

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