Feedback-informed Group Treatment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Needs of Patients and Therapists.

Therapists, including group therapists, can systematically gather feedback from patients about how their group members are responding to treatment. However, results of research on using feedback-informed group treatment (FIGT) are mixed, and the underlying mechanisms responsible for positive patient changes remain unclear. Therefore, the present qualitative study examined the perceptions and experiences of both (a) group therapists and (b) group members regarding using feedback in their therapy groups to gauge treatment progress, across five different therapy groups.

Evaluating WAIS-IV structure through a different psychometric lens: structural causal model discovery as an alternative to confirmatory factor analysis.

Objective: Since the publication of the WAIS-IV in the U.S. in 2008, efforts have been made to explore the structural validity by applying factor analysis to various samples.