A simple device for obtaining certain verbal activity measures during interviews.

1 November 1956

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Vol. 53 (3) , 388-390
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045885

Abstract

This paper describes a new instrument devised by G. F. Mahl to determine the duration of time spent talking by the participants in psychotherapy, and the amount of time the patient is silent during successive 2-minute intervals of individual interviews as well as during larger and variable time intervals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

INTERVIEW
VERBAL ACTIVITY MEASURES
ACTIVITY
METHODS &
PSYCHOTHERAPY
METHODOLOGY
APPARATUS
TECHNIQUES
VERBAL ACTIVITY MEASURES IN
VERBAL
MEASURING DEVICE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY