Specifics of Studying Changes in Individual Case of Psychological Counseling

At the current development stage of researches in the field of psychological therapy and counseling, both scientific and professional therapeutic organizations and communities are largely involved in solving the following problems: accuracy of practice activities and determination of efficiency criteria for psychological therapy and counseling. In recent years, this problem is being tackled within the framework of pilot scientific projects in the Department of Psychological Counseling. Based on the analysis model of one individual case, the study on personal psychoanalytic counseling of five clients (three women and two men, age of 27-48) was carried out. Each of five counseling therapies lasted from 1.5 to 4.5 months. To represent an individual case, a client was chosen who demonstrated the most strongly pronounced level of anxiety during the previous and the sequent observation. The clients of psychological counseling filled in the psycho-diagnostic procedure forms before and after the process. They were warned that the process would be based on the psychoanalytic approach and all the sessions would be recorded. The results of the study were based on a time series plan with the involvement of quantitative and qualitative data processing methods.