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Evaluation of Residents’ Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills

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The authors introduce a rating scale designed for use by supervisors evaluating residents doing psychotherapy. Factors assessed include: appropriateness of therapeutic arrangements, therapeutic alliance, self-observation, empathy, communication skills, detection of multiple meanings, quality of interpretations and psychodynamic formulation. The guiding principles behind the 18 items and sub-items are explicated and initial experience with the scale is discussed.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Box 6998 (m/c 917), Chicago, IL, 60680, USA

    Jerome A. Winer M.D. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Training and Supervising Analyst)

  2. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA

    Jerome A. Winer M.D. (Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Training and Supervising Analyst)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

    Marcelle Mostert M.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)

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Winer, J.A., Mostert, M. Evaluation of Residents’ Dynamic Psychotherapy Skills. Acad Psychiatry 12, 329–337 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399994

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