TY - JOUR
T1 - Using psychological assessment findings to change couples’ narratives in a collaborative way: A case study
AU - Provenzi, Livio
AU - Menichetti Delor, Julia Paola
AU - Coin, Romina
AU - Aschieri, Filippo
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Psychological assessment tools yield valid, reliable, and useful data for clinical psychologists. Nonetheless,
clients often lack appreciation of their utility to understand and cope with their daily life challenges.
Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (C/TA) models have shown that assessment results might be used
as brief therapeutic interventions through collaboratively sharing testing data with clients. In this article,
we focused on 2 collaborative techniques, namely intervention sessions and summary sessions, as
potentially able to increase assessment utility for clients, providing them with life-changing, experiencegrounded
feedback based on assessment results. The application of these techniques to a clinical case
with a couple suggested that both techniques might be beneficially applied to enhance clients’ empathy
and compassion, to promote new insights about life challenges, and to sustain the development of new
narratives and life meanings. C/TA techniques appear to be effective brief therapeutic interventions and
their application in everyday assessment practice may be warranted.
AB - Psychological assessment tools yield valid, reliable, and useful data for clinical psychologists. Nonetheless,
clients often lack appreciation of their utility to understand and cope with their daily life challenges.
Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (C/TA) models have shown that assessment results might be used
as brief therapeutic interventions through collaboratively sharing testing data with clients. In this article,
we focused on 2 collaborative techniques, namely intervention sessions and summary sessions, as
potentially able to increase assessment utility for clients, providing them with life-changing, experiencegrounded
feedback based on assessment results. The application of these techniques to a clinical case
with a couple suggested that both techniques might be beneficially applied to enhance clients’ empathy
and compassion, to promote new insights about life challenges, and to sustain the development of new
narratives and life meanings. C/TA techniques appear to be effective brief therapeutic interventions and
their application in everyday assessment practice may be warranted.
KW - couple therapy
KW - couple therapy
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/76762
M3 - Article
SN - 0735-7028
SP - 15
EP - 36
JO - PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
JF - PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
ER -