EVALUATION OF SELF-EXPERIENCE IN BEHAVIOR-THERAPY TRAINING THEORETICAL EXPLICATION AND EXEMPLARY APPLICATION OF A SELF-CONCEPT APPROACH

It is argued that evaluation of self-experience as an element in the t raining of behavior therapy has to be (1) theory-guided, (2) methodica lly independent from the realized approach for the self-experience, an d (3) empirically independent from subjectively perceived effects of s elf-experience. A new approach to evaluate self-experience is presente d, which combines options for an individual feedback for the participa nts with the opportunity of comparison of different concepts and reali zations of self-experience. Possibilities for evaluation as well as fo r individual feedback are demonstrated with examples from a course of self-experience, Perspectives for further theoretical discussions and empirical investigations are discussed.