Suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy: validation of the Dynamic Assessment Interview (DAI).
OBJECTIVE
To examine the predictive validity of a particular interview and rating scale of patient suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy: The Dynamic Assessment Interview (DAI) scale.


METHODS
Seventy-four psychiatric out-patients were interviewed with the DAI and the associations between DAI-scores and measures of outcome and of therapeutic alliance were investigated.


RESULTS
Small to moderate correlations were found between the DAI suitability score and outcome (0.06-0.46) and between DAI suitability score and early rated alliance (0.14-0.45). The predictive value of the DAI-score was limited although on a par with the alliance measures used in the study. No other pretherapy predictor variable investigated was found significantly to predict outcome.


CONCLUSIONS
The predictive power of the DAI measure was limited, a result, which is in agreement with results from former studies on suitability.
Department of Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark. kv@psykiatri.aaa.dk
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Rosenbaum
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D018579:Patient Selection; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results