Scarsdale Psychotherapy Self Test
Dear Reader,
How do you know if your therapy is working successfully? The Scarsdale Psychotherapy Self Test is a way of evaluating effectiveness. It puts the focus on the things that count towards results, whatever the theory or technique. You will be asked to rate in three categories: Relationship, Tasks and Safety. In all there are 16 items to be scored on a scale of 0-100. When the test is completed, you will be able to enter your scores and receive a confidential report comparing yours with others so you will have a relative idea of how your therapy is working. What is unique about the SPST is that it works equally well with any brand or style of therapy. Please enjoy learning about the things that count in psychotherapy.
I am interested in my results on the Scarsdale test. My first few appts with the psychologist were awful. I could barely make myself go, pushed by my divorce attorney! Then after a break for my vacation and his, I went again and started feeling more comfortable. Right now, I have great emotional attachment but cannot report that I think I am making any progress. I am very very depressed about my impending divorce and the awful prospects I have in the future without a job that will enable me to live comfortably while my husband makes a great deal of money. I am miserable and have started Welbutrin which makes me feel shaky and can’t sleep. I am now withdrawing from social occasions that I used to enjoy. It took everything I had to just decorate the house for Christmas for the children, I didn’t feel up to anything. The impending holidays look unbearable. I hope these feelings are normal, at least for the trauma I am going through. I had trouble completing the survey, it would not allow me to move the yellow bar to rate.
I found the test difficult because I had to concentrate so hard on getting the yellow bars to behave themselves. In the end, I didn’t think the answers were accurate because I was so distracted by the yellow bars and I didn’t submit the test.
Also I am not able to rate myself objectively about the seven tasks of psychotherapy and I think it requires objectivity, or at least an understanding of how far I have progressed and what is still achievable. The other questions require subjectivity, so I was satisfied with them.
Perhaps the seven tasks questions could be broken down into smaller subjective questions that could then be used to interpret the extent to which the seven tasks had been achieved. Just a thought.