title: The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULTI): initial report.
abstract: The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULTI) assesses interventions from eight different psychotherapy orientations (behavioral, cognitive, dialectical-behavioral, interpersonal, person centered, psychodynamic, process-experiential, and common factors) and from the perspective of clients, therapists, and observers. The internal consistency for the subscales was moderate to high. Split-half reliability was moderate for clients and low to moderate for therapists and untrained observers. Interrater reliability for the subscales was low for untrained raters but moderate for psychotherapy-knowledgeable raters. A model of the MULTI subscales representing different psychotherapy orientations fit the data adequately but not parsimoniously in a confirmatory factor analysis. MULTI subscale levels successfully predicted sessions of different psychotherapy orientations. The MULTI seems to be a promising tool to investigate the interventions that occur in different psychotherapies.
authors.affiliation: Center for Psychotherapy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309, USA.
authors.forename: Kevin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: Jacques P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult