Psychotherapy Transcription Standards

Abstract

Although use of psychotherapy transcripts is becoming increasingly im-portant in psychotherapy research, large-scale collaborative work is hindered by lack of suitable transcription standards. Guidelines are presented for the transcription of discourse, such as psychotherapy sessions, for research and educational purposes. Transcripts generated by follow-ing these standards will be readable by human judges; they will also be easily submitted for computer-aided text analysis, such as formal con-cordance. © 1992 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.