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This page is currently under construction, and the content is still in the process of being edited. Thus, if you happened to have stumbled upon this website, please keep in mind that this is a living document, and that some of the content is apt to change.
What is Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process (DAPP)?
This website is intended for communication about Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process including dissemination of the 3rd version of the Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process coding system (DAPP-III), intended to be useful in clinical practice and training. Through our work with previous DAPP coding systems (to be briefly described below), we in the DAPP lab have identified the DAPP framework as a helpful pan-theoretical lens for understanding various forms of psychotherapy. From our experience coding with DAPP, we identified its potential power as a clinical training, consultation, and reflection tool, and have transformed it into its current form (DAPP-III), described in the following pages.
We believe the DAPP-III framework can be useful for clinicians in the following ways:
(a) It can provide clinicians with useful tools for improving their practice without dictating that they modify their psychotherapy approaches;
(b) It can facilitate analysis of whether or not development is occurring in any particular psychotherapy case;
and (c) In can help therapists to recognize the resources they are offering to clients in each moment, as well as to identify in clients’ responsesdata that indicate whether the resource was used as they had hoped, thereby de-automatizing clinical decision-making.
A Brief History of DAPP
The Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process method, first articulated in a coding manual in 2000, has been used to analyze and ultimately integrate the various processes through which development occurs within psychotherapy. The systematic tracking of the psychotherapy process provides for precise description of each case’s unique developmental outcome. The previous coding method (described here as DAPP-II), is described in detail in Chapter 6 of Basseches and Mascolo’s (2010) book, Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process (Routledge). DAPP case studies, examples of which can be found in Chapters 7 and 8 of that book, provide rigorous documentation of processes and sequences of microdevelopmental movement that occurred within unique psychotherapy cases. Case studies also typically include critical analyses of how sequences that led to developmental outcomes are related to psychotherapeutic gains, and how sequences that led to microdevelopmental impasses were either subsequently transcended as a result of adaptations on the part of the therapist or else came to represent lost therapeutic opportunities.
This page is currently under construction, and the content is still in the process of being edited. Thus, if you happened to have stumbled upon this website, please keep in mind that this is a living document, and that some of the content is apt to change.
What is Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process (DAPP)?
This website is intended for communication about Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process including dissemination of the 3rd version of the Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process coding system (DAPP-III), intended to be useful in clinical practice and training. Through our work with previous DAPP coding systems (to be briefly described below), we in the DAPP lab have identified the DAPP framework as a helpful pan-theoretical lens for understanding various forms of psychotherapy. From our experience coding with DAPP, we identified its potential power as a clinical training, consultation, and reflection tool, and have transformed it into its current form (DAPP-III), described in the following pages.
We believe the DAPP-III framework can be useful for clinicians in the following ways:
(a) It can provide clinicians with useful tools for improving their practice without dictating that they modify their psychotherapy approaches;
(b) It can facilitate analysis of whether or not development is occurring in any particular psychotherapy case;
and (c) In can help therapists to recognize the resources they are offering to clients in each moment, as well as to identify in clients’ responsesdata that indicate whether the resource was used as they had hoped, thereby de-automatizing clinical decision-making.
A Brief History of DAPP
The Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process method, first articulated in a coding manual in 2000, has been used to analyze and ultimately integrate the various processes through which development occurs within psychotherapy. The systematic tracking of the psychotherapy process provides for precise description of each case’s unique developmental outcome. The previous coding method (described here as DAPP-II), is described in detail in Chapter 6 of Basseches and Mascolo’s (2010) book, Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process (Routledge). DAPP case studies, examples of which can be found in Chapters 7 and 8 of that book, provide rigorous documentation of processes and sequences of microdevelopmental movement that occurred within unique psychotherapy cases. Case studies also typically include critical analyses of how sequences that led to developmental outcomes are related to psychotherapeutic gains, and how sequences that led to microdevelopmental impasses were either subsequently transcended as a result of adaptations on the part of the therapist or else came to represent lost therapeutic opportunities.