Hi Renee,

I think it is very exciting that you're going to do a study on FAP in group
therapy!

As for measures, the FIAT and FAST are the most FAP specific, but can be time
consuming. Additionally, there is another FAP specific measure, the CRIVI,
which counts the number of in-vivo instances during a therapy session. I don't
know the citation off the top of my head, but Jonathan Kanter and his students
at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee have been working on it for some time.

I know that in past FAP studies, we have used measures of interpersonal
functioning (e.g., satisfaction with social support). At the University of
Washington, a study using FAP as part of a treatment for depressed smokers was
recently conducted. The authors of that study are Gareth Holman and Bob
Kohlenberg. I think it would be useful to ask them what measures they used in
their study.

An idea off the top of my head is to use some measures of therapeutic alliance
and group cohesion. Although there are some problems with both of these
measures (e.g., a ceiling effect for therapeutic alliance measures), I think you
might be able to take them and tweak them a bit to be a bit more FAP specific.
You could even post your revised items here on the list and solicit feedback on
them.

Another idea I have would involve more qualitative analysis than quantitative
analysis. Here at UW (and I think at UWM), we give our individual psychotherapy
clients a Session Bridging Form that they fill out between sessions. On it, we
ask clients to rate how close they felt to their therapist, how effective they
feel their therapist was during the last session, and we ask them what stood out
to them about their last session, and what they are afraid to ask their
therapists. You could examine these forms for each group member and across
group members, to identify the themes that emerge from the bridging sheet, and
how these themes relate to the clients' ratings of how effective and how close
they feel to their therapist. I'd be more than happy to share the form with
you.

Please keep us informed about the status of your study, and I wish you all the
best in getting it off the ground!

-Christeine Terry
Graduate Student
FAP Research Group
University of Washington

p.s. I would like to read your paper on group therapy using FAP.

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Renee Hoekstra wrote:

> I am doing a post doc at Mass Mental Health out here
> in Boston, and we are interested in collecting data on
> a FAP group. I have been discussing this with my
> supervisors, and we thought we would post a few
> questions on the FAP listserve.
>
> We are wandering if
> 1) People have done FAP groups and collected data (I
> know Luc Vandenbergh has the one on chronic pain and
> FAP, which I will be looking up again)
> 2) What kind of assessment measures have been used pre
> and post
> 3) Other information you have regarding FAP groups.
>
> We have been looking at the FIAT and the FAST. The
> plan is to do the a 16 session (4 month) group. These
> are folks that have been in DBT, have decreased their
> crisis behaviors, and continue to have problems with
> depression and other interpersonal difficulties
> despite not being in crisis. I have to write up the
> study, do the assessment, and complete the group
> within my post-doc year. We are concerned about the
> time-consuming-ness of the FIAT, and we are also
> concerned about the group applicability. I have
> written a paper on FAP group applications and would be
> happy to share it if people are interested. It has not
> been accepted for publication but it may be fun to
> beef up with some data and see where it goes. My
> supervisor is thinking of a measure on interpersonal
> relating and emotion regulation. She thinks it would
> be cool to vidoetape it and have coders monitor the
> occurance of CRB1's, but we are not set up to do that
> intensive of research.
>
> Another thought that we had was doing a FAP group with
> therapist trainees. We are still brainstorming. Please
> help if you can.
>

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