Coding/Rating Human Relationships
(Including Psychotherapy)
Bales in 1950 developed
the interaction process analysis (IPA) which has attracted the most research in
training groups or leadership groups. The process has been constantly updated
as a result of research efforts. However, the categories have remained pretty
much intact since the 1950 development. The following categories are taken from
the 1970 work.
Hill's (1979) counselor
verbal response category system (HCVRCS) contained 14 categories. The HCVRCS
meets a large part of the requirements of a broad area of human behavior and
the categories used cover the range of the major psychotherapy theories.
However, the categories focus on the skills of the therapist and are limited to
the verbal responses of the therapist. The categories are as follows
The following ratings
are taken from the ratings above that used Bale's system of rating. The
following are those ratings and the various nonparametric as indicated in the
syntax file above are computed on the data.
This syntax file was used.
The data for the above
analysis are nominal data and consequently, only those statistics based on
nominal data are appropriate for analysis. Only conditional probability
statistics are appropriate.
Hill, C. E. (1988). An
Overview of the Hill Counselor and Client: Verbal Response Modes Category
Systems. In L. S.
Greenburg & W. M. Pinsof (Eds.), The
Psychotherapeutic Process: A Research Handbook (pp. 31-159). New York,
NY: The Guildford Press.
The ratings of the
therapist are the first five numbers of each row and the next five numbers are
the ratings of the client. When a correlation is computed between column 1 and
column 5 it results in a cross-lagged correlation between the positive/negative
emotions therapist and positive/negative emotions of the client. If it were a
positive correlation it would indicate that whatever emotion is exhibited by
the therapist is followed by the same emotion of the client.
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