A METHOD FOR ASSESSING THERAPISTS RECALL OF IN-SESSION EVENTS

Fifteen licensed psychologists were asked to recall verbatim dialogue from 3 segments of an actual therapy session (first 5 min, most signif icant event, and last 5 min). Transcripts of the dialogue were coded f or main and supporting ideas and compared with the recollected dialogu e to measure the accuracy of the therapists' recall. The procedure tha t was developed to quantify the number of ideas present in the transcr ipts and the results of the recall analysis are described.