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Flatten, Guido, Moeller, Heidi, Aden, Jan M. A. and Tschuschke, Volker (2017). Balint Group Session Questionnaire. Instrument for identification of group processes in Balint groups. Psychotherapeut, 62 (5). S. 450 - 462. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1432-2080

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Abstract

The study reports on the development and validation of a time-economical questionnaire aiming at the objectivation of processes in Balint groupwork. Based on the data from the responses to two pilot studies, a 17-item Balint group session questionnaire (BG-F) was developed covering the perceptions and impressions of participants in each preceding Balint group session. The final factor structure of the questionnaire was investigated based on data from a sample of 1635 predominantly medical Balint group participants. Using explorative and confirmative factor analyses resulted in a three-factor solution, which could be assigned to four out of five latent dimensions of Balint's theory of group work with physicians. Scale 1 covers reflection of transference dynamics in the doctor-patient relationship, scale 2 specifies emotional and cognitive learning while scale 3 measures case mirroring in the group dynamics. The fit indices of the resulting model from the confirmative factor analysis ranged within a good to excellent spectrum (CFI = 0.97, RMSEA = 0.054 und SRMR = 0.033). A multilevel effect due to the data structure and the influence of group leader effects on the factor structure could be excluded by a confirmative factor analysis with a subsample (only one member in each group) and by a random effect test using linear mixed model analyses. The BG-F was cross-validated with the group self-experience questionnaire (G-SEF) using a subsample of 255 participants of Balint groups, resulting in satisfactory convergent and discriminant validities. The BG-F can be deployed as an economic instrument in daily clinical practice as well as in research, which enables the process experiences of Balint group participants to be collated.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Flatten, Guido UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Moeller, Heidi UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Aden, Jan M. A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tschuschke, Volker UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-219612
DOI:	10.1007/s00278-017-0182-z
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychotherapeut
Volume:	62
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 450 - 462
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1432-2080
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Psychoanalysis Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21961