The AGUST-Project. Analysis of similarities and differences in school-specific psychotherapy methods

Abstract

The science commission of the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (ASP) initiated the AGUST-Project to figure out commonalities and differences at the application of psychotherapeutic interventions. 24 representatives of eight therapy schools analysed in five working groups an APA video of a therapeutic session and answered questions to their own practice. Between September 2018 and January 2019 three science colloquium took place. On the exampel of the client of the video, the engaged therapists rated the shown interventions as they formulared alternative suggestions for interventions and goals in line of their therapy schools and explained their rationale for that. In the center of the research was the concrete approach of the particular school. The analysis shows commonalities and differences between the single psychotherapeutic orientations. In the video rating, in the suggestions of alternative interventions and their classification by the PAP-S-Rating-Manual the working groups showed less differences as for the rationale of their alternative interventions, the description of the client problems and terms they used to illustrate their specific backround.