title: Reliability and validity of the translated Psychotherapy Expectancy Inventory.
abstract: Matching treatment to therapy expectations is important. It increases treatment benefit and prevents dropout. No treatment expectation inventory existed in Hebrew, therefore a translation from English, of the Psychotherapy Expectancy Inventory-Revised, developed by Berzins, was undertaken. The questionnaire was given to 268 students twice, to 21 therapists and 107 parents of children referred to a child and adolescent clinic once. The translated questionnaire has high test-retest reliability, high internal consistency and significant criterion related validity-contrasted groups on advice, audience and relationship. Factor analysis yielded the four original scales, with the exception of two questions, which were moved to different scales.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminology, Western Galilee College, Bar-Ilan University, Acco, Israel. helenwa@yahoo.com
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Wallach
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Farbshtein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011613:Psychotherapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating