Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. Volume 7, Number 2 (Archival Information Package)

This issue of PCSP explores a promising approach for bridging the gap in communication and mutual respect between therapy group researchers and therapy practitioners: the "Individual Case-Comparison" (ICC) method. This method consists of systematically comparing good-outcome and poor-outcome cases that have both been drawn from a successful randomized controlled trial (RCT) treatment condition. As such the ICC method adopts a "mixed methods" model that integrates group-based, quantitative results with the case-based results of systematic and contextualized, narrative case studiesviewing both types of knowledge as complementary. To illustrate the ICC method, two pairs of case comparisons between a good-outcome and a poor-outcome client are presented. One pair is drawn from the successful condition of an RCT on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder; and one pair, from the successful condition of an RCT for Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for depression. In each instance, the comparative analysis incorporates detailed qualitative data from the individual cases along with standardized, quantitative process and outcome measures drawn from the RCT studiesshowing the "value added" of a mixed methods model. The issue is capped by a wide-ranging and incisive commentary by the Japanese clinical psychologist Shigeru Iwakabe, who discusses the history, logic, and cultural context of the comparative case study method, together with a critical analysis of the DBT and EFT case studies comparisons. This resource is archived and is not available for public use. The publicly accessible version is available at http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/pcsp/issue/view/98Binary format, Base64 in XML wrapper, native OJS import format -- README file -- The "Individual-Case-Comparison" Method for Systematically Comparing Good-Outcome and Poor-Outcome RCT Clients: Editor's Introduction / Fishman, D. -- Contrasting Clients in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: "Marie" and "Dean," Two Cases with Different Alliance Trajectories & Outcomes / Burckell, L. -- Contrasting Two Clients in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression 1: The Case of "Tom," "Trapped in the Tunnel" / Watson, J. -- Contrasting Two Clients in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression 2: The Case of "Eloise," "It's Like Opening the Windows and Letting the Fresh Air Come In" / Goldman, R. -- Extending Systematic Case Study Method: Generating and Testing Hypotheses About Therapeutic Factors Through Comparisons of Successful and Unsuccessful Cases / Iwakabe, S