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ERIC Number: EJ965200
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0167
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Working through: In-Session Processes that Promote Between-Session Thoughts and Activities
Owen, Jesse; Quirk, Kelley; Hilsenroth, Mark J.; Rodolfa, Emil
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v59 n1 p161-167 Jan 2012
This study examined whether clients' ratings of the working alliance as well as their perception of cognitive-behavioral (CB) and psychodynamic-interpersonal (PI) techniques (delivered by therapists who used both) were associated with clients' intersession processes (i.e., their thoughts about therapy and therapeutic activity between sessions). Seventy-five clients who were currently in therapy at a large university counseling center participated in the current study. Multilevel regression analyses demonstrated that alliance and clients' perceptions of their therapists' use of PI techniques were positively associated with clients' general thoughts about therapy between sessions. Also, stronger alliances were associated with more therapeutic activities between sessions and more positive (and less negative) thoughts about therapy between sessions. In addition, clients at later sessions who described their therapists as using more PI techniques also reported engaging in more therapeutic activities between sessions (after controlling for the variance in the other variables, such as use of CB techniques). Clients' perceptions of their therapists' use of CB techniques in the most recent session were not related to thinking about therapy or therapeutic activities after controlling for the variance in the other variables. (Contains 1 figure, 2 tables, and 1 footnote.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Working Alliance Inventory
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