EVALUATION AND DESCRIPTION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS BY CLIENTS USINGTHE SESSION EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE SESSION IMPACTS SCALE

Clients' evaluations of their sessions were prominent in factor-based indexes of session impact derived from the Session Evaluation Question naire (SEQ) and the Session Impacts Scale (SIS) in a large sample (N = 2,414 sessions with 218 clients). One or both of the SEQ's independen t session evaluation indexes, Depth and Smoothness, were highly correl ated with SEQ's postsession Positivity and Good Therapist indexes and with the SIS's Understanding, Problem Solving, and Relationship indexe s, as well as with single-item global evaluation scales, Good-Bad and Helpful-Hindering. Only the SEQ's postsession Arousal index and the SI S's single-item Unwanted Thoughts index appeared to be primarily descr iptive rather than evaluative. The SIS's Hindering Impacts index's ite ms were endorsed infrequently but might usefully flag problematic sess ions.