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- Title
Assessing Distance Training: How Well Does It Produce Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists?
- Authors
Gordon, Robert M.; Lan, Jing
- Abstract
How effective is psychoanalytic/psychodynamic distance training over the Internet? To assess this, we surveyed graduates of the 2-year and 4-year programs of the China America Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). The main results of the 90 graduates' surveys showed that 77% of their work involves a psychoanalytic formulation of their cases as compared to other theoretical orientations. Graduates highly rated the effectiveness of their own psychoanalytic therapy over videoconferencing (VCON). Graduates' ratings of treatment with their patients over VCON positively correlated with years of psychoanalytic education, number of days a week in own treatment, years doing psychoanalytic treatment, and degree working with a psychoanalytic orientation. Graduates thought that therapist variables (skillfulness, warmth, empathy, and wisdom) were much more important in the effectiveness of their treatment than whether the treatment was in-person or with VCON, or the presence of cultural differences with their therapist. The graduates' ratings of how they are practicing psychoanalytic treatment were highly correlated with how their own therapists practiced psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as measured by the psychodynamic/interpersonal process items on the Comparative Psychotherapy Process Scale (CPPS).
- Subjects
PSYCHODYNAMIC psychotherapy; VIDEOCONFERENCING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; GRADUATES; EMPATHY
- Publication
Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 3, p329
- ISSN
2162-2590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pdps.2017.45.3.329