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Jason Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Death anxiety has been an unremitting agent of the human experience. The psychological dilemma posed by the awareness and forecasting of death can increase anxiety, thus affecting well-being through the compulsive desire or will to persist (Becker, 1973; Yalom, 1980). Such psychological armor can manifest in conscious and unconscious behaviors,…
Descriptors: Death, Anxiety, Counselor Training, Student Attitudes
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Lange, Aurelie M. C.; Delsing, Marc J. M. H.; van Geffen, Marieke; Scholte, Ron. H. J. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: A strong therapeutic alliance or working relationship is essential for effective face-to-face family-based psychotherapy. However, little is known about the use of VC on alliance in family-based therapy. The recent COVID-19 pandemic led to a national lockdown during which most family-based therapy transferred to VC. Objective: The…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Family Counseling, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Maitland, Daniel W. M.; Gaynor, Scott T. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2012
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) is a form of therapy grounded in behavioral principles that utilizes therapist reactions to shape target behavior. Despite a growing literature base, there is a paucity of research to establish the efficacy of FAP. As a general approach to psychotherapy, and how the therapeutic relationship produces change,…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Predictor Variables, Counselor Attitudes, Behavior Disorders
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Webb, Christian A.; DeRubeis, Robert J.; Dimidjian, Sona; Hollon, Steven D.; Amsterdam, Jay D.; Shelton, Richard C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Previous research has found that therapist adherence to concrete, problem-focused cognitive therapy (CT) techniques predicts depressive symptom change (e.g., Feeley, DeRubeis, & Gelfand, 1999). More recently, Strunk, DeRubeis, Chui, and Alvarez (2007) demonstrated that in-session evidence of patients' use of CT skills was related to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Rating Scales, Depression (Psychology), Psychotherapy
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Applebaum, Allison J.; DuHamel, Katherine N.; Winkel, Gary; Rini, Christine; Greene, Paul B.; Mosher, Catherine E.; Redd, William H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: A strong therapeutic alliance has been found to predict psychotherapeutic treatment success across a variety of therapeutic modalities and patient populations. However, only a few studies have examined therapeutic alliance as a predictor of psychotherapy outcome among cancer survivors, and none have examined this relation in…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, Counseling Techniques
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Richards, Penelope; Simpson, Susan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
In this paper we introduce and investigate the capacity for a novel, technologically advanced system (goACT) to enhance face-to-face psychotherapy. Specifically, we explore the capacity for goACT to enhance therapeutic alliance (TA) and engagement, and reduce distress. Using a mixed-methods, multiple-baseline design we present the first study to…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Pilot Projects, Technology Integration, Influence of Technology
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Castonguay, Louis G.; Boswell, James F.; Constantino, Michael J.; Goldfried, Marvin R.; Hill, Clara E. – American Psychologist, 2010
The goal of this article is to delineate training implications regarding harmful effects associated with psychotherapy. The authors strongly recommend that trainees be made aware of (and encouraged to examine carefully) the potentially harmful treatments that have been recently identified (Lilienfeld, 2007). Consistent with a broad perspective on…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Injuries, Counselor Training
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Zirkelback, Emily A.; Reese, Robert J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
Evaluating psychotherapeutic outcome is an important endeavor given psychology's focus on identifying effective treatments. There is ample evidence to suggest that psychotherapy interventions for children and adolescents are effective. Unfortunately, the child and adolescent psychotherapy outcome literature lags behind the adult-focused outcome…
Descriptors: Mental Health Workers, Mental Health, Adolescents, Children
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Fauth, James; Hayes, Jeffrey A. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2006
The authors investigated the applicability of a transactional theory of stress to the understanding of countertransference with male clients. Counselors responded to either a traditional or nontraditional videotaped male client vignette. As expected, counselors' stress appraisals predicted their countertransference behavior. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Counselors, Anxiety, Predictor Variables, Psychotherapy
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Maramba, Gloria Gia; Hall, Gordon C. Nagayama – Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2002
Meta-analyses were performed on seven studies of ethnic match and psychotherapy. Results reveal a small dropout and utilization effect sizes, indicating that ethnic match is not a significant clinical predictor of decreasing dropout after the first session or increasing number of sessions attended. (Contains references and tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship, Dropouts
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Eltz, Michael J.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
This study examined relationships among maltreatment experience, therapeutic alliance formation, and treatment outcome among 38 psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Results indicated that maltreatment, multiplicity of maltreatment, and type of perpetrator were all associated with initial alliance difficulties. Severity of interpersonal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Coping, Counselor Client Relationship
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Tyler, John D.; And Others – Counseling and Values, 1989
Examined agreement between patient and therapist about mental health values to determine whether such agreement influences psychotherapy outcome. Results from 100 chemically dependent inpatients found positive treatment effects associated with pretreatment agreement between counselor and patient about some mental health values, but with…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Congruence (Psychology), Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship
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Fauth, James; Williams, Elizabeth Nutt – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2005
Although therapist self-awareness has been hailed as a critical component of psychotherapy, recent evidence suggests that therapists' in-session self-awareness may hinder rather than help the therapeutic process. The authors examined the in-session self-awareness of therapists in training (trainees) in relation to their interpersonal involvement…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Psychotherapy, Allied Health Personnel, Outcomes of Treatment
Courtois, Christine A.; Watts, Deborah – 1980
Recognition of the gravity of the social problem of incest in the United States, coupled with increasing demands for psychological treatment and assistance from social service agencies by incest victims and their families, has demonstrated the need for controlled research in this area. Knowledge of the effects of incest is critical to the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Correlation, Counselor Client Relationship, Family Problems
Strachan, Angus; Shiffman, Saul – 1980
Forty nonclinical psychology graduate students participated in brief small-group interchanges designed as psychotherapy analogues. The interaction was rated by trained judges, and the "clients" in the simulations also rated "therapist" empathy. The most powerful predictor of client-rated empathy was gender, with women receiving higher empathy…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Empathy, Graduate Students