title: Online data collection for psychotherapy process research.
abstract: A preliminary investigation addressed the feasibility of using a specially designed online database to collect psychotherapy session impact and therapist-client alliance data and compared these online measures to published results of their paper-and-pencil counterparts. Participants drawn from a psychology department clinic, a student counseling center, and community agencies visited an online site to report on each of their sessions. Some clients and therapists visited the online database on a regular basis; however, client recruitment and participation was problematic. Equivalence between the online and paper-and-pencil forms was supported, with minor qualifications, by comparable distributions of participant responses on the measures' scales. More direct contact with clients might increase their participation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. reynold1@muohio.edu
authors.forename: D'Arcy J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Stiles
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012106:Research / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires