The psychological mindedness assessment procedure - validation study of a Dutch version.
OBJECTIVE
The Psychological Mindedness Assessment Procedure [PMAP; McCallum, M. & Piper, W. E. (1990)] operationalizes psychological mindedness as a participant's understanding of the problem presented by two videotaped enacted patients. To possibly enhance predictive power for psychotherapy outcome, we added two video scenarios with emotionally high-impact. This article describes psychometric properties of the Dutch translation of the PMAP and the extended version, the PMAP-plus.


METHODS
A therapy-analogue study with non-clinical participants (N = 100).


METHODS
In individual sessions, participants watched the four video-scenarios and responded to the PMAP-question 'What seems to be troubling this woman?'. Emotional reactions were measured using the Positive And Negative Affect Schedule [PANAS; Watson, D., Clark, L. E. & Tellegen, A. (1988)].


RESULTS
The PMAP and the PMAP-plus had good interrater reliability. As expected, PMAP-levels were lower for the newly added high-emotional scenarios. Validity was further supported by a negative relation of PMAP-scores with the Negative Affect subscale.


CONCLUSIONS
The Dutch translation of the PMAP and the added scenarios of the PMAP-plus are reliable instruments. The predictive power for psychotherapy outcome needs to be investigated in a patient group. The variation in presented clinical problems could also make it a useful instrument to assess psychological mindedness in psychotherapists.
Smith
Annemarie J M
AJ
Foundation Centrum '45, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. a.smith@centrum45.nl
Kleijn
Wim Chr
WC
Trijsburg
R Wim
RW
Segaar
Jaap A
JA
van der Staak
Cees P F
CP
Hutschemaekers
Giel J M
GJ
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001364:Awareness; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D016544:Patient Simulation; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D011613:Psychotherapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014743:Videotape Recording; D014796:Visual Perception