Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34909010›Full record

ArticleClinical neuropsychiatry2020

First Validation of the Referential Process Post-Session Scale - Therapist Version (RPPS-T).

Attà Negri, Giovanbattista Andreoli, Rachele Mariani, Francesco De Bei, Diego Rocco, Andrea Greco, Wilma Bucci

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Clinical neuropsychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Attà NegriDepartment of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3968-6444
Giovanbattista AndreoliDepartment of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1389-6515
Rachele MarianiDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5952-3525
Francesco De BeiDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2949-1080
Diego RoccoDepartment of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8474-0174
Andrea GrecoDepartment of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8086-2801
Wilma BucciNew York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, New York, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6717-6201

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveBucci's multiple code theory maintains that for a significant change the patient-therapist relationship should foster a referential process shaping in three alternating phases: arousal of emotion schemas, symbolizing/narrating emotional experiences, and reflecting/reorganizing the emotional meanings. Until now to monitor these phases clinicians and researchers have used several referential process computerized linguistic measures, which however need the sessions verbatim transcription. In order to have a less time-consuming method we developed and tested a therapist self-report questionnaire measuring the referential process phases.

methodWe asked eight psychotherapists in a first study and nine psychotherapists in a second study to complete the Referential Process Post-session Scale - Therapist version (RPPS-T) just after the end of their sessions. In a third study we transcribed 29 sessions conducted by three psychotherapists to calculate the correlations between the RPPS-T scores and the computerized linguistic measures of the referential process calculated on the session transcripts.

resultsIn the first study we collected 105 evaluations regarding 29 patients and an exploratory factor analysis revealed a four-factor pattern consistent with the hypothesized constructs. The analysis reduced the initial pool of 42 items to 12. In the second study 130 sessions with 25 different patients have been evaluated on the shortened version of the RPPS-T and a confirmatory factor analysis found that the four-factor model satisfactorily fitted the new data as well. In the third study we found that the factors of RPPS-T regarding the symbolizing phase correlated with the corresponding computerized linguistic measures calculated on the session transcripts.

conclusionsThe RPPS-T received a first validation as a concurrent measure of the referential process, especially for the symbolizing phase, and could be considered a useful instrument for research and supervision.

Indexed as

multiple code theoryreferential activityreferential processReferential Process Post-session Scalereflection and reorganization function

Identifiers

PMID34909010
PMCPMC8662713

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.