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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"psychotherapy research"”.
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Psychologists' Volunteering: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Toward Psychotherapy Research
… volunteering behavior and attitudes toward psychotherapy research were studied using a mail survey. A random sample of 248 male and 248 female doctoral-level members of Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association served as subjects. The cover letter requesting their …
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Factors affecting the therapeutic alliances' impact on substance use disorder treatment outcomes.
… to significantly affect outcomes in both general psychotherapy research and substance-use-disorder specific research. The proposed study is an attempt to improve our understanding of how therapeutic alliance factors influence outcomes when treating substance-use-disordered clients. Two factors of …
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Exploring the common factors that contribute to an effective coaching engagement : a thematic analysis
… relies heavily on psychology and human behavior research and approaches yet is largely unregulated with a variety of approaches and styles being implemented from coaches with varying levels of education and training. The practice of coaching and psychotherapy are remarkedly similar in their use …
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Cultural Humility and Outcome Rating Scale: Multilevel Mediation Effects of Dyadic Working Alliance
Abstract Current psychotherapy research on cultural humility (CH) indicates that CH is positively associated with client treatment outcomes and that working alliance may mediate the relationship between CH and treatment outcome. However, these studies have used cross-sectional data and have largely …
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Attachment and Shame-Coping Style: A Relationship Mediated by Fear of Compassion?
… that shame is a predominant emotion presented in psychotherapy. Research has focused on shame proneness; less is known about how one copes with shame. Research suggests the best antidotes for shame are receptiveness to compassion from others and the ability to be self-compassionate. However, …
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Practices and Perceptions: Referral and Intake to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
This thesis reports research into referral and intake to child and adolescent mental health services intended to illuminate a largely unnoticed but potentially powerful clinical phenomenon in service provision. Referral and intake to child and adolescent mental health services was demonstrated to …
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A Meta-Analysis of Component Treatment Studies: Are the Parts as Good as the Whole?
<p>Psychotherapy has been proven effective in treating a variety of mental health issues. However, there is disagreement in psychotherapy research about whether or not factors common to all psychotherapies or specific ingredients within a treatment package are responsible for successful treatment …
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A phenomenological inquiry into how transcendent experiences among existential therapists influence their practice
… Yet, the phenomenon is little studied in psychotherapy research, from the lived perspectives of therapists who have intimate encounters with such experiences. Addressing this lacuna, this phenomenological study investigates the research question, ‘How do transcendent experiences as …
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Knowledge generation processes and the role of the case study method in the field of psychotherapy
… knowledge generation methods in the field of psychotherapy, with a focus on qualitative clinical and systematic case study narratives. Currently, evidence–based practice (EBP) in psychotherapy prioritises quantitative methods (e.g., systematic reviews and meta–analytic reports, which summarise …
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Hope and the therapeutic relationship: An 'interactive dance'
Within psychotherapy research there is a general consensus on the important role that clients’ hope plays in successful therapeutic outcomes. However little is known about how practitioner psychologists understand and experience their own hope in their clinical practice. It is anticipated that …
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Exploring whiteness in the context of antiracist psychotherapy education: a narrative inquiry into therapists’ experiences
… history of inequity in training, practice and psychotherapy research has shaped these problems. Concerns about racism were illuminated following the onset of the Covid 19 global pandemic, the racist murder of George Floyd on 25th May 2020 in the USA, and the re-surgency of the Black Lives …
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Common and Model-Specific Factors: What Marital Therapy Model Developers, Their Former Students, and Their Clients Say About Change
… reviews of decades of comparative efficacy psychotherapy research consistently reveal that all tested models of marriage and family therapy (MFT) work, and they generally work equally well. Researchers have hypothesized that this may be due to factors common across models responsible for …
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Ambivalence as a Moderator of Treatment Outcomes in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
… respond optimally to treatment. A major focus of psychotherapy research involves client-treatment matching, which examines client characteristics as potential predictors of treatment response. Client ambivalence has been identified as a key marker in psychotherapy with wide-ranging implications …
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Resolution of Self-Interruption in Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Model of Client Processes
… are discussed and contextualized within current psychotherapy research literature.
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The Relationship Between Adolescents' Stage of Change and Their Ability to Establish a Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
<p>This study examined the process of psychotherapy with adolescents in group psychotherapy, assessing the adolescents' motivation to change behaviors, also called stage of change beliefs, and how these relate to the quality of the relationship, or working alliance, between the adolescent and …
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A contribution to developing the counselling and psychotheraphy profession: a reflexive action research study
… some key developments within the counselling and psychotherapy professions in recent years. 1 begin by looking at three phenomena which have been referred to as Schoolism, the research-practice gap and the hierarchy of evidence. I argue that it is important to address these phenomena as the …
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The Impact of Sudden Gains and Deteriorations on the Psychotherapy Process
<p>Within the field of psychotherapy research, there has been significant evidence to suggest that people change and improve because of treatment (Lambert & Ogles, 2004). One common phenomenon that has been observed when looking more closely at outcome trajectories has been termed sudden …
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Unveiling a blind spot... a moment of truth. Psychotherapists’ lived experience of psychological blind spots and moments of self-awareness: findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry
… with an understanding of its implications, for psychotherapy research, training and clinical practice. Methodology and Design: This naturalistic study took a hermeneutic phenomenological epistemological stance to generate sufficiently rich lived experience descriptions through dialogic …
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Parental and grandparental stories of parent work in child psychotherapy, with families affected by mental health difficulties: a psychoanalytically informed narrative inquiry.
… work undertaken separately, but alongside child psychotherapy, with parents and carers in a specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (hereafter abbreviated to CAMHS) for families impacted by severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Beginning with a thorough review, scoping the …
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Towards Collaboration: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Conversation Analysis of Change in Talk-in-Interaction in Psychotherapy
<p>The study utilizes conversation analysis to describe changes at the level of talk-in-interaction across four points of time (beginning, middle, late, and ending sessions) in four different psychotherapies: two “successful” psychotherapies and two “unsuccessful” ones, with the author of this …
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