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Value Conflicts In Psychotherapy: Psychology Graduates' Perspectives, Shannon Vincent Wilde Dec 2008

Value Conflicts In Psychotherapy: Psychology Graduates' Perspectives, Shannon Vincent Wilde

Theses and Dissertations

Although psychotherapy has been viewed historically as value-neutral, developments over the last half-century have led to the generally accepted position that values are inescapable in therapy. However, many questions remain as to how values should be managed in psychotherapy in order to protect client autonomy. These issues are of particular concern to training programs, which bear the responsibility of instructing new psychologists in ethical values management and of helping trainees manage personal values when those values are in conflict with those of their clients or with the values of the field in general. One aspect that has not previously been …


Ciis Today, Fall 2008 Issue, Ciis Oct 2008

Ciis Today, Fall 2008 Issue, Ciis

CIIS Today

This volume is the Fall 2008 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.


The Group Questionnaire: A New Measure Of The Group Relationship, Julieann Krogel Jul 2008

The Group Questionnaire: A New Measure Of The Group Relationship, Julieann Krogel

Theses and Dissertations

The Group Questionnaire (GQ) is a 30-item, self-report measure of the group relationship that was developed in the present study. It is based off of Johnson's new three factor model of the group relationship which includes Positive Bonding, Positive Working, and Negative Relationship. This study involved two parts, the creation of the GQ followed by the validation and refinement of the GQ using 486 participants from three populations - outpatient university counseling center, inpatient state hospital, and non-patient AGPA process groups. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test the goodness-of-fit of Johnson's model to each of the populations separately …


Gifts In Psychotherapy: Practice Review And Recommendations, Sarah Knox Mar 2008

Gifts In Psychotherapy: Practice Review And Recommendations, Sarah Knox

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The presentation of gifts in psychotherapy, whether to or from the therapist, does not happen frequently, but its occurrence may nevertheless be quite provocative. This practice review summarizes theoretical and clinical perspectives regarding gifts in therapy, reviews the minimal extant literature on this topic, and offers recommendations for practice and research.


Case Studies Of The Attainment Of Insight In Dream Sessions: Replication And Extension, Sarah Knox, Clara E. Hill, Shirley A. Hess, Rachel E. Crook-Lyon Mar 2008

Case Studies Of The Attainment Of Insight In Dream Sessions: Replication And Extension, Sarah Knox, Clara E. Hill, Shirley A. Hess, Rachel E. Crook-Lyon

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

To replicate and extend the Hill, Knox, et al. (2007) case study of a client who attained insight in one session of dream work, the authors examined two additional single-session cases: one in which a client gained insight and another in which a client did not. The observations across all three cases suggest that the two clients who acquired insight had positive attitudes toward dreams; were motivated and involved in session; and were nonresistant, trusting, and affectively present but not overwhelmed. The client who did not gain insight questioned the value of dreams and was resistant, untrusting, and emotionally overwhelmed. …


Effectiveness Of Problem-Solving Therapy For Older, Primary Care Patients With Depression: Results From The Impact Project, Patricia Arean, Mark Hegel, Steven D. Vannoy, Ming-Yu Fan, Jurgen Unuzter Jan 2008

Effectiveness Of Problem-Solving Therapy For Older, Primary Care Patients With Depression: Results From The Impact Project, Patricia Arean, Mark Hegel, Steven D. Vannoy, Ming-Yu Fan, Jurgen Unuzter

Steven D Vannoy

Purpose: We compared a primary-care-based psy- chotherapy, that is, problem-solving therapy for primary care (PST-PC), to community-based psycho- therapy in treating late-life major depression and dys- thymia. Design and Methods: The data here are from the IMPACT study, which compared collabora- tive care within a primary care clinic to care as usual in the treatment of 1,801 primary care patients, 60 years of age or older, with major depression or dysthymia. This study is a secondary data analysis (n = 433) of participants who received either PST-PC (by means of collaborative care) or community-based psychotherapy (by means of usual care). …


The Many Hats Of A Clinic Director, Christopher E. Overtree Jan 2008

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 Jan 2008

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 …


Empathy And The Therapeutic Alliance: Their Relationship To Each Other And To Outcome In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Joan Degeorge Jan 2008

Empathy And The Therapeutic Alliance: Their Relationship To Each Other And To Outcome In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Joan Degeorge

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Therapist empathy has long been recognized as an important therapeutic factor across different psychotherapies. However, despite its widely accepted clinical importance, empathy is conceptually complex, and its relation to other psychotherapy constructs and to therapy outcomes remains empirically unclear. The current study examined the association between empathy and the therapeutic alliance, as well as their respective and potentially interactive associations with treatment outcome. Using confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and path analysis, these relations were examined in the context of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a condition for which little research exists on treatment process and …


Interdependent Group Contingency Management For Cocaine-Dependent Methadone Maintenance Patients., Kimberly C Kirby, Mary Louise Kerwin, Carolyn M Carpenedo, Beth J Rosenwasser, Robert S Gardner Jan 2008

Interdependent Group Contingency Management For Cocaine-Dependent Methadone Maintenance Patients., Kimberly C Kirby, Mary Louise Kerwin, Carolyn M Carpenedo, Beth J Rosenwasser, Robert S Gardner

Faculty Scholarship for the College of Science & Mathematics

Contingency management (CM) for drug abstinence has been applied to individuals independently even when delivered in groups. We developed a group CM intervention in which the behavior of a single, randomly selected, anonymous individual determined reinforcement delivery for the entire group. We also compared contingencies placed only on cocaine abstinence (CA) versus one of four behaviors (CA, treatment attendance, group CM attendance, and methadone compliance) selected randomly at each drawing. Two groups were formed with 22 cocaine-dependent community-based methadone patients and exposed to both CA and multiple behavior (MB) conditions in a reversal design counterbalanced across groups for exposure order. …