From OQ ® to GQ ® : Measuring Group Member Experience Jennie Bingham, Ph.D. Mark Beecher, Ph.D. Brigham Young University ACPA Annual Convention Indianapolis,

From OQ® to GQ®: Measuring Group Member Experience Jennie Bingham, Ph.D.Mark Beecher, Ph.D.Brigham Young University

ACPA Annual Convention Indianapolis, Indiana

Measurement – does it mean what we think it means?

•Qualitative study of using the OQ® before every session (Jensen, Golightly, & Beecher, unpublished data)▫Measures are more successful when the purpose is clear ▫Measurement is unpleasant but helpful (at least for some)▫Measures can be used as primer/organizer for sessions▫Clients’ feel measures don’t fully capture their experience

•It’s a piece of the puzzle – but an important one!▫Find out what it means to the client

The Group Questionnaire

•Measures positive bond, positive work, and negative relationship

•Does so across three parts of the therapeutic relationship: member-member, member-leader, and member-group

•Created by the Consortium for Group Research and Practice (C-GRP) at Brigham Young University

The “I’m good” Dropout… ▫“I don’t think I need group this semester. I am doing really well. Thanks!”

AND the OQ Survey Says…

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(Distressed)

So what was happening in group?

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New Group Feedback Format

•Compiled by Jordan Rands and Kait Whitcomb as part of a study being conducted by Drs. Gary Burlingame and Mark Beecher

•These features slated to be available in OQ®-Analyst late summer 2014 http://www.oqmeasures.com

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Conflict and Rupture

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After Implemented Feedback

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Conflict

Process Rupture

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Process Rupture

Conflict

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Conflict

Process Rupture

So How do I Use this Feedback?•Limited only by your creativity!

▫Identify differences between what is observed in session and what is reported on GQ

▫To highlight patterns▫To address safety concerns▫Share individual results ▫Plan interventions ▫Ideas for ways to support those in danger

of dropping out

References

• Bakali, J., Baldwin, S., Lorentzen, S. (2009). Modelling group process constructs at three stages during

psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 19(3), 332-343.

• Bormann, B., & Straus, B. (2007). Gruppenklima, Kohäsion, Allianz und Empathie als Komponenten der

therapeutischen Beziehung in Gruppenpsychotherapien – Überprüfung eines Mehrebenen-Modells.

Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik, 43(1), 1-20.

• Bormann, B., Burlingame, G. & Strauss, B (2011). Der Gruppenfragebogen (GQ-D). Instrument zur Messung

von therapeutischen Beziehungen in der Gruppenpsychotherapie. Psychotherapeut, 56, 297-309.

• Burlingame, G.M. (2010). Small group treatments: Introduction to special section. Psychotherapy Research, 20(1), 1-7.

• Burlingame, G., McClendon, D., & Alonso, J (2011). Cohesion in group psychotherapy. In J. C. Norcross

(Ed.), A Guide to Psychotherapy Relationships that Work (2nd Ed.). Oxford University Press.

References

• Chapman, C., Burlingame, G., Reese, F., Gleave, R., Beecher, M., & Porter, G. (2012). Clinical prediction in group

psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 22(6), 673-681.

• Jensen, D., Golightly, T., & Beecker, M. What are the clients really thinking? Investigating client perspectives on routine

outcome measures in a university counseling center, in preparation.

• Johnson, J., Burlingame, G. M., Olsen, D., Davies, R., & Gleave, R. L. (2005). Group Climate, Cohesion, Alliance, and

Empathy in Group psychotherapy: Multilevel Structural Equation Models. Journal of Counseling

Psychology, 52(3), 310-32. 

• Krogel, J., Burlingame, G., Chapman, C., Renshaw, T., Gleave, R., Beecher, M., & MacNair-Semands, R. (2013). The

Group Questionnaire: A clinical and empirically derived measure of the group relationship. Psychotherapy

Research, 23(3), 344-354

• Thayer, S (2012). The validity of the Group Questionnaire: Construct clarity or construct drift. Unpublished dissertation,

Brigham Young University.