Investigated relationship between patients' session-by-session evaluations of brief psychotherapy and outcome. Results indicated that patients' in-process evaluations were correlated significantly and positively with some positive treatment outcome measures, especially achievement of patients' specified treatment goals, but only during initial and…

Examines the effect of three years of structural therapy on inpatient cases of early childhood autism (ECA). Treatment resulted in the discharge of 12 patients. Results indicate that high stimulation, physically intrusive, gamelike, novelty filled, and developmentally oriented treatment of structural therapy can produce significant improvement in…

Evaluated generalizability of findings that male and female patients receive differential psychiatric treatment. Comparison of outpatients on demographic, clinical, and self-report measures of mood, symptoms, and interpersonal concerns revealed no sex differences. Results indicated that with samples of male and female patients, there were no…

Reviews and comments upon articles by Jane Loevinger and Robert Kegan devoted to self and ego. A spiral-process model of self-conception is offered as an elaboration of the processes that might be involved in equilibration. The clarifying purpose of theory should not be forgotten. A phenomenological perspective is presented. (Author/BEF)

Presents a model for strategic, therapeutic interventions to help children stop repetitive behavioral sequences that offer protection from painful losses, but block the grief process. (Author/RH)

There was no direct relationship between patients' dependency scores and the number of sessions in psychotherapy and between patients' ego-strength and attendance in psychotherapy. A statistically inverse relationship existed between dependency and ego-strength scores. (Author)

Psychoanalytic theory and cognitive dissonance theory predict that clients who pay a fee for counseling benefit more than clients who do not pay. Results of this study suggest that paying a fee does not significantly influence counseling outcome as measured by client evaluations of counselors. (Author)

Mental health center outpatients without health insurance or welfare were studied to determine the effect of fee assessment on premature termination. Charging non-psychotic clients a sliding scale fee influenced them not to terminate treatment prematurely. (Author)

Multidimensional scaling yielded three comparable dimensions and the words fell into thematic clusters like those found among the problem behaviors. Results were similar to those reported earlier for the problematic behaviors. (Author/BEF)

The view that behavior therapists are ethical relativists is challenged. Behavior therapists hold no philosophical positions that preclude justification of ethical principles, but they must be "ethical skeptics." In response, it is argued that there is no basis for ethical skepticism or for this philosophical defense of behavior therapy.…

Presents an Emotionality-Rationality-Activity model that integrates recent classifications of counseling and psychotherapy. The model also serves as a theoretical basis from which methods, goals, and processes during counseling, psychotherapy, and training can be derived and integrated. (Author)

Based on assumption that paradox itself is a conceptual and not an empirical phenomenon, study presents an analysis of these situations by analogy. This analysis has implications for psychotherapy which render the use of contralogical techniques of change more easily specifiable. (Author)

A group of Puerto Rican female outpatients at a New York State mental health facility underwent group therapy. Through case studies the limitations and growth potential of the group are described. The group's strength was their cultural homogeneity. Drawing on similar pasts and presents, members could communicate with each other. (Author/BEF)

Proposed a procedure for extending the external validity of analogue research. Hill, Tanney, Leonard, and Reiss's analogue investigation of counselor reactions to female clients was partially replicated using parallel measures obtained in a naturalistic counseling setting. Results bode well for the procedure of translating analogue variables into…

Physical benefits of running have been highly publicized. Explores the equally valuable psychological benefits to be derived from running and examines how mastering a physical skill can be generalized to mastery in other areas of life. (Author)