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Having knowledge about the impact of an intervention on a client in a specific psychotherapy session helps us to examine whether the process is helpful, effective or harmful. Also the agreement levels between therapist and client for the session assessment effect the important decisions respecting planning and changing the psychotherapy process. The main aim of this study is investigating the session impact in the context of therapist-client relationship. Accordingly, the targets of this study are a) examining the psychometric properties and factor structure of Session Evaluation Questionnarie, b) evaluating the agreement levels about session impact between therapists and clients, c) exploring the main indicator of session impact for clients and therapists. 69 therapists and 112 clients participated in the study and the analysis were conducted from the data which were obtained from 810 sessions. The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that the binary factor structure of the questionnaire was supported and the reliability of the dimensions were quite high (Cronbach a = .87 - .92). At the same time, the results refered that there were a significant agreement between therapists and clients for all items and dimensions (ICC Mean = .45). Moreover, the results of multiple group analyses showed that the models of therapist and client were overlapped with each other in terms of the questionnaire's binary structure. Rather than 'smoothness', the 'depth' dimension was the main indicator of the session impact for both therapists and clients. With this study, the 'session impact' which is an important and efficacious variable for psychotherapy processes was investigated for the first time in Turkey with therapist-client dyads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Flynn Effect is one of the most controversial issues in the psychology literature. Although the majority of researchers agree about the presence of this effect, the arguments about the source of the effect still continue. Many studies have been conducted to examine the presence and severity of this effect, in many countries. The Flynn Effect is evaluated for the first time in Turkey by the present study. For this aim, the scores of WISC-R for which Turkish norms had been established in 1984 were compared to composite scores of WISC-IV for which Turkish norms were established in 2012. The participants of the study were composed of 87 children and adolescents, whose ages varied between 6 and 16. Results of the study revealed significantly higher scores for WISC-R compared to WISC-IV, and this difference could be predicted with the Flynn correction. Results are consistent with the results which were obtained from American and European samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]