title: Developing a prototype for short-term psychodynamic (supportive-expressive) therapy: An empirical study with the psychotherapy process Q-set.
abstract: A Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS) prototype characteristic of short-term psychodynamic therapy (STPP) does not yet exist.
  
  
  
  Experts in supportive-expressive (SE) therapy used the 100-Item PQS questionnaire to rate an ideal short-term SE therapy.
  
  
  
  Agreement between raters was high (Cronbach's alpha = 0.94). The prototype for SE therapy showed a significant correlation with the psychoanalytic prototype, but with 28% of variance explained, the majority of variance of the former was not explained by the latter or vice versa. Furthermore, the SE prototype showed significant correlations with the cognitive-behavioral prototype and the prototype of interpersonal therapy by Ablon and Jones (r = 0.69, 0.43).
  
  
  
  We recommend using the PQS prototype presented here for future process research on STPP.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy , Justus-Liebig-University Giessen , Giessen , Germany.
authors.forename: Falk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leichsenring
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychiatry , Massachusetts General Hospital , Newton , MA , USA.
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ablon
authors.affiliation: c Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies , Adelphi University , Garden City , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Jacques P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barber
authors.affiliation: d Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy , University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Mainz , Germany.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beutel
authors.affiliation: e Department of Psychiatry , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , PA , USA.
authors.forename: Mary Beth Connolly
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.affiliation: e Department of Psychiatry , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , PA , USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crits-Christoph
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy , Justus-Liebig-University Giessen , Giessen , Germany.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy , Justus-Liebig-University Giessen , Giessen , Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leweke
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy , Justus-Liebig-University Giessen , Giessen , Germany.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steinert
authors.affiliation: d Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy , University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Mainz , Germany.
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiltink
authors.affiliation: f Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy , Georg-August-University Goettingen , Goettingen , Germany.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salzer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*
keywords: mechanisms of change; psychotherapeutic processes; psychotherapy process Q-sort; short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy; supportive-expressive therapy