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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"presenting problems"”.
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Evaluating Therapy Effectiveness in an Mft Training Clinic: Current Practices and Recommendations for the Future
… modality, treatment length, fee for services, presenting problems, and termination category were examined. A statistically significant relationship was found between treatment outcome and each of the following variables: treatment length, number of presenting problems, and termination category …
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Attributional Outcomes: The Subtle Messages of Treatments for Attention Deficit Disorder
… for the causes and solutions to their children's presenting problems. While child measures did not reveal significant effects, group means were directionally similar to those of the parents. Parents in the no pill group believed most strongly that their children were capable of solving their own …
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A Comparison of the Marriage Checkup and Traditional Marital Therapy: Examining Distress Levels at Intake for Student Couples
… individual and relational stress and severity of presenting problems recorded at intake. Differences were investigated between couples who, though initially requesting the brief Marriage Checkup, elected to continue with traditional marital therapy and couples who only participated in traditional …
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So what brings you to the clinic today?' : talk in family intake interviews
… examined the ways in which families constructed presenting problems in the talk of their first session at a psychology clinic. It also looked at the ways in which they constructed individual subjectivities during the interviews. Six families self-selected for therapy and were then invited to …
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Assessing Assessment: A Qualitative Evaluation of Psychological Assessment Applied to a Foster/adoptive Population
… were satisfied with school assessments when the presenting problems were academic, but preferred independent assessments for more complex diagnostic evaluations. Mothers also valued assessments completed by students or an intern over those completed by independent professionals, apparently …
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The Essential Elements of Multi-family Group Therapy: A Delphi Study
… it is effective and with what populations and presenting problems it is best employed. A panel of MFGT experts identified 35 essential elements for successful MFGT. Many of the identified elements coincided with elements identified in the relevant literature. However, elements specific to MFGT …
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Primary care behavioral health in the time of COVID-19
… is little research on how this has impacted the presenting problems seen in IPC, or how IPC utilization may have been impacted. This study will examine patient characteristics and IPC utilization of two clinics serving a low income and racial and ethnic minority population and assess how patient …
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Adapting parent -child interaction therapy to train Head Start teachers in behavior management
… greater inclusion of children with a range of presenting problems have resulted in increasingly more children with difficult behavior in non-specialized classrooms. Unfortunately, teachers report that they have not been trained adequately to work with children who exhibit extreme behaviors. It …
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Bilateral Art: An Integration of Marriage and Family Therapy, Art Therapy, and Neuroscience
… application of the intervention to a range of presenting problems including differentiation from family of origin, parenting problems, loss, trauma, and self-esteem concerns and provide the first documented evidence of the effectiveness of the bilateral art intervention. Additional case studies …
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An Intervention to Increase Adherence to a Psychological Treatment Program
… participant demographics, treatment outcome, and presenting problems were analyzed descriptively. The results indicate that this intervention is insufficient to address the problem of non-adherence to therapy. Explanations regarding the failure of this intervention are discussed.
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Laboratory-based tasks in the diagnosis of ADHD in adults: a theoretical and empirical analysis
… psychological evaluation for a variety of presenting problems including, emotional, occupational, relational, and/or adjustment, difficulties. Standardized clinical evaluations were conducted and structured clinical interviews were used to determine clinical diagnosis and group membership …
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Evaluation of an anger management program with aggressive children in residential treatment
… were 14 boys in residential treatment with presenting problems of excessive anger or aggression. The subjects, who ranged in age from 9.8 to 14.8, were randomly assigned to an Anger-management (treatment) condition or an Attention-control condition. Subjects met with a female therapist for …
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The Characteristics of Play Therapy Sessions with Children: A Preliminary Investigation
… how gender, age, ethnicity, household and presenting problem of children impacted the play therapy process. Thirty-two cases of children who received ten or more sessions of play therapy at the Child and Family Resource Clinic, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas between the years of …
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Personality Profiles and Problems Related to Clergy Misconduct
… for the church. There are legal and financial problems, as well as damage to individuals and communities. The purpose of this study was to examine personality profiles and situational themes of ministers in treatment whose presenting problems included sexual misconduct.</p> <p><em>Method. </em> …
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Needs and services at ward one, Valkenberg hospital
… Hospital, are not routinely measured. Their presenting problems are frequently complicated by basic and social needs, which impact on recovery and re-integration into the community. The Camberwell Assessment of Need is a valid and reliable instrument used to measure the mental health needs of …
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A Comparison of Factors Associated With Referrals, Service Placements and Length of Service for African-American and Caucasian Youth With Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances Served Through the Comprehensive Services Act in Virginia
… to adjust for factors such as age, gender and presenting problem. Multiple linear regression was employed for interval outcome data in order to adjust for age, gender and presenting problems.</p> <p>Ethnic differences were noted for type of referral, out-of-home placement, residential …