Interaktionsresonanz in der Personzentrierten Spielpsychotherapie – Eine Ratingskala

Abstract

Interactive Resonanace in Person-centered Playtherapy — A Rating Scale. Person-centered playtherapy today is practised both in a classical facilitative way following Axline and in an interactive way. The child’s play does not only receive empathic comments, the therapist engages as well in joining the play, stays nondirective in this while attuning his behavior exactly to the child. This method is named Interactive Resonance (IR). A new 7-level rating scale captures this interaction. Wordings of each level as well as 6 anchor examples for each of the most important play modalities make IR concrete: role play, construction play, board games, fighting games and verbal interaction. The scales’ inter rater reliability and the practicability was assessed with 7 videotaped therapy segments from an instructional dvd. Reliability was sufficient high with a median of Pearson’s r = .81 and single rater agreement scores from r = .73 to 1.00. The raters judged the scale to be practically usable. It can be useful in Client Centered Therapy in training and research.