Strong Lasting Results

Executive Summary

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The theme and purpose of the Windhausen study was to examine the effectiveness of the Quadrinity Process. On a pragmatic level, Windhausen was also concerned with the quality assurance regulations of German health laws, which require efficacy studies in order for specific therapies to be legally accepted as treatment modalities. Her dissertation therefore serves as a personal, professional, legal and scholarly endeavor to clarify a number of hypotheses. She enumerated a number of hypotheses.

The hypotheses:

1. The Quadrinity Process offers long-term changes.
2. In the examination of the two groups, the effects of the 8 day Quadrinity Process are larger and more stable than those of the three-month clinical therapy control group.
3. The therapeutic results of the Quadrinity Process show themselves in the following dimensions:
   a) reduction of reported symptomatology;
   b) increased self worth and self acceptance;
   c) increased self assurance;
   d) development of emotional competence (self-awareness, growth potential, ability to overcome problems, ability to deal with changes, consciousness of responsibility, etc.);
   e) increased ability to deal with life circumstances;
   f) the movement of self perception towards a picture of the desired ideal.

These hypotheses were measured by a number of paper and pencil tests. The majority of the tests are in the German language and authorship, however a translated SCL 90-R a test of American origin, was also included. The tests, which took approximately 1.5 hours to complete, were administered to a 56 of Quadrinity Process students and the selected patients with a 22 at the hospital clinic. These test were repeated immediately after treatment and again at three and six months after treatment. A further probe of the results for the Quadrinity Process students was repeated 12 months post-treatment.

The results were robust. Measures showed statistically significant results over a one-year period. For instance, among the many documented changes, the scores of the Frankfurter Selbstkonzeptskalen, a self-concept scale, rose significantly and remained stable. Other significant changes include changes to the Problembewaeltigung and the Verhaltens-und die Allgemeine Selbstwert-schaetzung scales, which address problem solving, relationships, and general self worth and judgment scales. All told, the changes in the Quadrinity Process were significantly greater than the changes in the three-month group therapy clinic program.

The Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL 90-R), a list of 90 questions concerning medical symptoms, was included in the study. Depressive symptoms, for instance, were significantly reduced after the Quadrinity Process had been taken. The reduction of fear, was one of the most important results in the Unsicherheitsfragebogen—Confidence questionnaire. In the total of 38 scales, 11 of those scales showed significant statistical differences for those who took the Quadrinity Process. These scales concerned themselves with self worth, self assurance, empathy and capacity for consensus.

In all, the dissertation results are encouraging. Windhausen comes to the conclusion that the Quadrinity Process is a highly effective one. She finds the changes positive, stable and long-term.