Conceptually-Based Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) of Change Events: What Clients Tell Us About Our Micro Theory Of Change

present a conceptually based approach to the use of Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) for studying clients' recollections of their experiences in therapy / after providing the background for the development of this tape-assisted recall procedure, the approach will be described, and its utility for testing micro theories of change events will be demonstrated in a study of a particular affective change event in client-centered therapy the kind of hypotheses that can be tested and the type of data obtained by this method will become apparent / procedural and methodological problems associated with this method will be discussed, along with the place of a Conceptually-Based IPR in an integrated paradigm of change process / combines model-based hypotheses on client processes involved in cognitive-affective tasks and clients' own reports of their in-therapy experiences / aim is to bring the client's perspective to bear on the clinician–researcher's micro theory of a therapeutic change event