Children’s Psychotherapy
Development of a Portuguese version of the Child Psychotherapy Q-Set
Keywords:
Child psychotherapy, Psychotherapy research, Therapeutic processes, Translating, Instrument adaptationAbstract
Scientific literature recognizes the need to increase knowledge on child psychotherapeutic process, understanding the mechanisms by which changes occur. In order to do this, we need instruments that will make possible such investigations. The aim of this study was to translate and adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Child Psychotherapy Q-Set (CPQ), an instrument that aims to analyze the psychotherapeutic process of children. The study was conducted in four stages, assessing the equivalence between the translated version and the original instrument in four areas: semantic equivalence, idiomatic, experiential and conceptual. It was found that the Portuguese version of the CPQ presented good equivalence with the original and the interrater reliability was satisfactory. The possibilities provided by the CPQ were discussed.
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