abstract：:A growing body of research suggests that homework assignments facilitate positive outcomes in psychotherapy. We describe a cognitive behavioral outpatient therapy that stresses the important role homework plays in psychotherapy outcomes and that is found to be successful for treating emotional distress in both older a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Coon DW,Gallagher-Thompson D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used the 80-item Disclosure to Therapist Inventory-R to investigate the nature of patient disclosure within therapy. Participants (45 men, 102 women) were all currently in therapy. A Principal Components Analyses with varimax rotation yielded nine meaningful factors; mean disclosure scores were lowest for t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Farber BA,Hall D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lay concepts of "mental disorder" were investigated in a pilot study of beliefs about 68 conditions, 47 of which corresponded to DSM-IV mental disorders. Undergraduates who had no formal education in abnormal psychology rated the conditions on features proposed in technical definitions of "mental disorder" and judged ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Haslam N,Giosan C

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven elements of resilience are identified in college students who have learning disabilities. These elements become the bases for approaches to assisting children in constructing resilience when facing such difficulties. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Miller M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present background on the gestalt-experiential understanding of resistance, conceptualized to be either resistance to awareness or resistance to contact. The authors discuss why they do not use the term resistance and describe the phenomena as a client's self-protective attempt to avoid the anxiety necessi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Engle D,Holiman M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This pilot study compared the efficacy of two treatments for postraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Prolonged Exposure (PE). Data were analyzed for 22 patients from a university-based clinic serving the outside community (predominantly rape and crime victims) who ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Ironson G,Freund B,Strauss JL,Williams J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between pretreatment client characteristics and the therapeutic bond, which is defined as the emotional aspect of the therapeutic alliance. Three types of interpersonal problems and four indicators of emotional distress were measured and compared to the therapeutic bond and its subs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Saunders SM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the extent to which the results reported by Warner and Bradley (1991) can be generalized beyond the population of undergraduate psychology students, 132 adults in the metropolitan Harrisburg area were asked to evaluate the competency and traits of clinical psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Bremer BA,Foxx RM,Lee M,Lykins D,Mintz VR,Stine E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether a pain clinical sample and pain simulators could be distinguished by their responses on the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Fifty patients with a pain condition completed the SCL-90-R under normal instructions while 20 students responded under instructions to feign a pain disor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： McGuire BE,Shores EA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma in Kosovo was treated with Thought Field Therapy (TFT) during five separate trips by members of the Global Institute of Thought Field Therapy, in the year 2000. Clinicians from Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States were joined in Kosovo by four physicians who transported them to remote war-torn vill...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Johnson C,Shala M,Sejdijaj X,Odell R,Dabishevci K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaud's (2001) radical behavioral manifesto suggests that a psychological science based exclusively upon the study of environment-behavior functional contingencies would yield a discipline unencumbered by mentalism, vaguely delineated disciplinary boundaries, or inappropriate reductionism. In reply, we note that: (a) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Ilardi SS,Feldman D

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 100 years, countertransference has evolved from a narrow construct referring to the analyst's transference to the patient to a jointly created phenomenon that is ever-present in the psychotherapeutic situation. In recent years, a myriad of theoretical perspectives have begun to converge around the view t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Gabbard GO

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from a Consumer Reports (CR) survey indicated that psychotherapy has proven to be quite effective and that longer-term therapy has been more effective than shorter-term therapy. Critiques of the methodology of this study have included the claim that (a) the self-selected sample was biased in favor of people wh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Howard KI,Krause MS,Caburnay CA,Noel SB,Saunders SM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Training directors of 82 American Psychological Association (APA)-approved doctoral programs in clinical psychology responded to a survey on the current status and recent changes in doctoral training in psychological assessment. Although testing continues to be a major focus of training, a slight decline in emphasis o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Belter RW,Piotrowski C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between interpersonal dependency and medical service use in a hospital setting, the number of medical consultations and psychotropic medication prescriptions were compared in matched, mixed-sex samples of 40 dependent and 40 nondependent psychiatric inpatients. Results indicated that depend...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： O'Neill RM,Bornstein RF

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether a pain sample and pain simulators could be distinguished on the Pain Patient Profile (P3). Forty patients with a pain condition completed the P3 under normal instructions, while 20 students responded under instructions to feign a pain disorder but to attempt to avoid detection. The simu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： McGuire BE,Shores EA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers an alternative to traditional psychotherapies designed to regulate affect. ACT is based on the premise that normal cognitive processes distort and enhance the experience of unpleasant emotion, leading clients to engage in problematic behaviors designed to avoid or attenua...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Blackledge JT,Hayes SC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of the Italian version of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was assessed in a group of 26 schizophrenic patients and their parents. In both groups, internal consistency indices were satisfactory and mean PBI scores at test and retest were stable. The test-retest reliability coefficients for the PBI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Favaretto E,Torresani S,Zimmermann C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many postmodernists appeal to theses about the relationship between language and reality as one basis for rejecting natural science approaches to psychotherapy. The theses include one or more of the following: (a) There are multiple worlds rather than just one, (b) worlds are constructed rather than discovered, and (c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Erwin E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research describes the initial development of a new measure to assess the expectations of children for social situations. Responses are provided to 16 ambiguous photographs of children. Answers identify expectations for how the child will feel and what will happen to the child in each picture. The value of expect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Gully KJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We summarize the four papers in this issue by consumers evaluating their mental health treatment, focusing on aspects of their treatment that they collectively found helpful and hindering. These factors include the context of treatment, the therapy relationship, interventions used and issues addressed, helpful experie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Glass CR,Arnkoff DB

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent and potential dangerousness of the problem of domestic violence warrants systematic screening and assessment in all mental health settings. Few empirical studies have approached the question of domestic violence with the aim of identifying risk markers, making it impossible to identify a particular characte...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Riggs DS,Caulfield MB,Street AE

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports findings of a study on self-injury, childhood abuse, and self capacities that supports a theory for understanding and assisting self-injuring individuals in crisis. In the study, 233 adults from partial hospital settings and an outpatient clinic answered questions concerning self-injury, abuse his...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Deiter PJ,Nicholls SS,Pearlman LA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As we expand the borders of traditional diagnostic nomenclature, distinguishing health from disorder becomes complex. This is especially true when the diagnostic lens views individuals as they exist within families that reside within wider social milieus. From this viewpoint, the recursive and interdependent factors i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Rigazio-DiGilio SA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews some of the historical factors associated with the unprecedented strength and popularity of cognitive therapy, and offers predictions for the next half-century of this approach to treatment. It is predicted that the future will bring with it increased demands on cognitive therapy for evaluation of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Dobson KS,Khatri N

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the extent to which eating-disordered and nonclinical comparison samples could be differentiated on self-reported personality measures of autonomy and sociotropy and a projective measure of dependency. Sixty-two women meeting diagnostic criteria for eating disorder and a nonpsychiatric comp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Narduzzi KJ,Jackson T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because little information exists on examinees' perceptions of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R), this study was designed to assess such perceptions in two groups: young adults (n = 50, age 18-25 years) and elderly adults (n = 46, age 65-96 years). Each participant completed the WAIS-R followed by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Beglinger LJ,Smith T,Gregory RJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents an approach for treating career burnout based on a psychodynamic existential perspective. Psychodynamic theory contributes the idea that people choose an occupation that enables them to replicate significant childhood experiences. Existential theory contributes the idea that people attempt to fin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Pines AM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the adequacy of global ratings of patients' psychosocial functioning, which are an integral part of the current system for obtaining multidimensional psychiatric diagnoses and are embodied by the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale as AXIS V of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Moos RH,McCoy L,Moos BS

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined resident characteristics, clinical factors, and mental health service utilization associated with quality of life (QOL) for residents living in an Intermediate Care Facility (ICF). This study also utilized published literature to compare the QOL of ICF residents to persons with psychiatric disorder...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Anderson RL,Lewis DA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of conceptualizations of the relationship between therapist and client, as well as the impact the quality of this relationship has on the client, are reviewed. Different hypotheses about bow the alliance might influence therapeutic progress are also presented. The review pays attention to both the historical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Horvath AO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiment 1 examined whether the use of the DSM-III-R decision trees increased the accuracy of DSM-III-R diagnoses. Results indicated that the use of the decision trees interacted with the level of DSM-III-R experience to affect diagnostic accuracy. The use of the decision trees resulted in a modest increase in diagn...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Morgan RD,Olson KR,Krueger RM,Schellenberg RP,Jackson TT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new level of sophistication is advocated for psychotherapy research--methodological pluralism. This pluralism recognizes the number of unexamined and untested assumptions that are embedded within any method, including traditional scientific methods. These assumptions restrict the questions that can be asked and the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Slife BD,Gantt EE

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increased interest in the study of language processes in psychotherapy. More recently, research and theoretical formulations of the therapeutic process suggested that we must move from the microscopic study of verbal modes to a macroscopic approach in which these modes are organized into narratives. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Gonçalves OF,Machado PP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using hierarchical linear models procedures (Bryk & Raudenbush, 1992), growth curve analyses were performed to examine the temporal course, rate of change over time, and determinants of therapist competence in short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy (STAPP) (Sifneos, 1992). Treatments were 20 sessions long, were ma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Svartberg M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has shown that perfectionism is an important psychological variable in explaining various disorders. This study evaluated (a) the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (CFMPS) and (b) the relative predictive power of its subscales for sel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Cheng SK,Chong GH,Wong CW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the frequency with which two MMPI-2 suicide items (506 and 520) were endorsed. These two items can be referred to as the "I Mean Business" items, for there is no denying that the client is reporting the recent contemplation of actively taking his or her life. A large sample (N = 23,646) of well-d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Sepaher I,Bongar B,Greene RL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, prospective childhood data from birth to 7 years of age were used to determine predictors of subsequent violent behavior. The childhood predictors found for the girls accounted for more variance in the reported later violent offenses: 24.9% compared to 3.8% for the boys. This large difference may be due...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Friedman AS,Kramer S,Kreisher C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the treatment of eating disorders has focused primarily on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and, more recently, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). Numerous studies have shown that CBT is helpful in reducing symptoms of bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. In addition, CBT has been found to be super...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Peterson CB,Mitchell JE

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated clients' affective experience during therapy. Clients (N= 268) completed Therapy Session Reports (TSR) in an early session of treatment. The two sections of the TSR that assess how the client felt and how the client perceived the therapist to be feeling were combined and factor analyzed. Six st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Saunders SM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00