title: Adolescents in psychodynamic psychotherapy: changes in internal representations of relationships with parents.
abstract: This study explored whether and how internal representations of adolescents' relationship with their parents--a fundamental concept in psychodynamic theory--changed in the course of a year of treatment and whether the observed changes were related to changes in symptoms. Seventy two adolescents (ages 15-18; 30 in treatment and 42 in a non-treatment "community group") underwent Relationship Anecdote Paradigm (RAP) interviews according to the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method (CCRT; Luborsky & Crits-Christoph, 1998) and completed outcome measures at two time points. A novel data-driven approach to clustering CCRT categories was used to characterize internal representations. The potential contribution of this approach to the CCRT method is discussed. The results indicate that adolescents' internal representations of their relationships with their parents changed significantly throughout treatment, and were related to changes in symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. dana.slonim@gmail.com
authors.forename: Dana Atzil
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Slonim
authors.forename: Gaby
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shefler
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Slonim
authors.forename: Orya
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tishby
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy