Measuring acceptance from speech
May 5, 2006 - 6:01am — Tracey Lloyd
Does anone know of/have any ideas about how to code acceptance from speech. I am currently involved in a study of mothers of children with intellectual disabilities and I have an opportunity for doing some telephone interviewing. I would like to see if it's possible to code for acceptance within speech samples, but I'm having trouble knowing where to start! I had thought of using a semi-structured interview format Any thoughts on this would be really appreciated.
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experiencing scale
Yeah, I thought about mentioning the experiencing scale as a lot of work has been done on that. If you want to check that out, you can find a copy here:
http://www.experiential-researchers.org/instruments.html
The experiential researchers continue to use this scale. I could imagine it might provide some ideas for developing a novel acceptance/EA coding system. That group of researchers really know their stuff when it comes to coding.
Jason Luoma
www.drluoma.com
Experiencing Scale
One problem is that that scale conflicts with an ACT perspective somewhat at the highest levels of the scale (instead of values consistent action it goes into something that looks more like letting your emotions guide you ... not an awful disconnect, but just slightly off).
Sue Melancon McCurry revised it to fit an ACT model in her dissertation, as I recall
Client metaphor use in a contextual form of therapy
by McCurry, Susan Melancon, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1991, 262 pages
- S
Steven C. Hayes, University of Nevada
Reply to original title "Looking for ACT Recources"
I am a brand new member in need of a link or a phone # of the Tucson Residential Tx Ctr mentioned in the Time article. I have a family member in crisis, any info on how to get in touch with the program mentioned would be, not only appreciated, but possibly life saving.
Thank you
Rod House
PS: 4 days later: Crisis "resolved", but still would like to know if, for future reference, there are any residential treatment programs that make extensive use of ACT in the southwest?
misclassified
Rod,
Unfortunately, you put your post down in a longer post which could result in less people viewing it and less likelihood of a response.
If you want to have a better chance of having someone see this post and respond usefully, it could be better categorized. The place where you'd want it to go is in the forum by clicking on "post a new forum topic" on this webpage: http://www.contextualpsychology.org/forum/public/looking_for_act_resources
Many more people will read it then, resulting in a higher likelihood of an answer.
Unfortunately, these interactive websites can be a bit difficult to learn. Each one has its own tricks and structure. Hope this helps with this one.
-j
Experiential avoidance
I can't remember all the content of the coding system, but Durriyah Khorakiwala did a dissertation with Steve Hayes a few years ago where she developed a coding system for therapy sessions. One of the codes is for experiential avoidance. I don't think there is something for acceptance, but there may be. By coding the acts of experiential avoidance in transcripts, you may be able to get at the inverse of acceptance. Her coding system might help you to develop something that could do that.
You could certainly be more likely to hear/see experiential avoidance in response to some questions than others. I'd put some careful thought into what questions you could ask that would evoke experiential avoidance and a context that you would need to set up that would allow this to be evoked. You might even want to guide them through imagining a difficult scenario with their child and then proceed to relate their reactions to it.
You might also want to contact JT Blackledge, who has done some work with ACT for parents of children with pervasive developmental problems. He might have some ideas.
Jason Luoma
www.drluoma.com
client voice quality
Psychotherapy coding is painful. I was a coder on Durriyah's diss. I got started coding ACT (then comprehensive distancing) transcripts and tapes the summer before I entered the grad program at Reno--rapidly approaching seventeen years ago. YIPES! I think there are likely pieces of Durriyah's system that could be useful. You might also take a look at Rice's "Client Voice Quality" process measure. It is out of the old humanistic psychology empirical programfrom the late sixties. The coding system actually looks at tone and fluency of speech(I am recollecting here--so forgive any mistakes). If I remember right, the coding system was able to predict positive psychotherapy outcomes. As I said look late sixties. You might look at Roger's old "Client Experiencing Scale." Again, I haven't looked for years, but there are definte overlaps. As painful as the development process is, it would dignify the effort if someone could use these measures.
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Mississippi