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The Many Hats Of A Clinic Director, Christopher E. Overtree

Christopher E. Overtree

This article discusses the many roles and challenges of being a Director of a Psychology Training Clinic in a University Setting

The Efforts Of Therapists In The First Session To Establish A Therapeutic Alliance, Gregory H. Macewan

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Although the therapeutic alliance is known to be a principal therapeutic factor, little attention has focused on therapists’ perspectives on the impact of the first session on the development of the therapeutic alliance. The present study is a qualitative exploration of interviews with ten therapists regarding the first session and their efforts to establish a therapeutic alliance with their new clients. The data were analyzed using Clara Hill’s Consensual Qualitative Research paradigm (CQR). In considering Bordin’s (1979) three components of the alliance (tasks, goals, bond), therapists viewed the bond as the most influential contributor to the development of the alliance …

Parenting Style Discrepancies: A Comparison Of Inter-Ethnic And Intra-Ethnic Couples, Dhara Thakar

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Parenting and family interactions are thought to play a critical role in children’s development and are often key targets in clinical interventions for children with behavioral problems. Multiple factors are thought to determine patterns of parenting behavior including child and parent characteristics as well as broader social and cultural factors (Abidin, 1992; Belsky, 1984; Maccoby, 1992). Because culture is thought to influence parenting, it is possible that inter-ethnic couples may experience a greater discrepancy than intra-ethnic couples in their parenting styles, but research considering the role of different cultural backgrounds and parenting has been sparse. The current study examined whether …

Many Faces Of Openness In Adoption: Perspectives Of Adopted Adolescents And Their Parents, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Lynn Von Korff, Brooke Skinner, Jane Newell, Sarah Friese, Ruth G. Mcroy

Rudd Publications

Parents and adolescents (mean age, 15.7 years) from 177 adoptive families participating in the second wave of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project were interviewed about their post-adoption contact arrangements. The sample included families with no contact, stopped contact, contact without meetings, and contact with face-to-face meetings between the adolescent and birth mother. Openness arrangements were dynamic, and different openness arrangements were associated with different experiences and feelings. Adoptive families with contact reported having higher levels of satisfaction about their openness arrangements, experiencing more positive feelings about the birth mother, and possessing more factual and personal knowledge about the birth mother …

The International Adoption Project: Population-Based Surveillance Of Minnesota Parents Who Adopted Children Internationally., Wendy L. Hellerstedt, Nikki J. Madsen, Megan R. Gunnar, Harold D. Grotevant, Richard M. Lee, Dana E. Johnson

Rudd Publications

OBJECTIVES:

To conduct the first population-based surveillance in the United States of parents who adopted children from countries outside of the United States.

METHODS:

A 556-item survey was mailed to 2,977 parents who finalized an international adoption in Minnesota between January 1990 and December 1998; 1,834 (62%) parents returned a survey.

RESULTS:

Eighty-eight percent of the parents reported transracial adoptions (97% of the parents were white); 57% of the adopted children were Asian; 60% were female; and on average, the children were 18 months-old at the time of placement. Only 15% of the parents reported household annual incomes less than …