Hemispheric asymmetries: Individual-difference measures for aptitude-treatment interactions?

Federico, Pat-Anthony

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(84)90119-3

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“…Problems with this research were noted. Federico (1984) presents convincing arguments against the use of this general type of attribute measure. It would seem to be more promising to focus instead on subjects'…”

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Aptitude-treatment interaction research in the clinical setting: A review of attempts to dispel the "patient uniformity" myth.

Dance

Neufeld²

1988

Psychological Bulletin

101

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Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) research is directed toward identifying client variables that predict differential treatment responsiveness. As such, insights derived from this research are of potential importance for clinicians faced with the dilemma of selecting the most effective treatment for their clients. Unfortunately, most of the ATI research to date has been characterized by the use of an inappropriate methodology. Therefore, some general methodological issues with regard to ATI research are outlined. The literature encompassing cognitive and/or behavioral treatments for anxiety, depression, pain, obesity, and tobacco dependence is then reviewed. This examination reveals little consistency in the emergence of individual differences relevant to treatment responsiveness. There are some indications that it may be possible to distinguish two (broadly denned) groups of individuals: those with active and those with less active coping styles. The former group appears to fare better in treatments that emphasize self-control rather than therapist control. In addition, the distinction between visually and verbally based coping strategies has been shown in some cases to predict response to visually or verbally based therapies. Overall, however, attempts to identify treatment-relevant client attributes have been disappointing, and suggestions for improving ATI research are forwarded.Over 2 decades ago, Kiesler (1966) attempted to dispel the myth of "patient uniformity," that is, the tacit assumption inherent in most psychotherapy research that patients with a given disorder constitute a homogeneous group. He argued that meaningful conclusions regarding outcome cannot be drawn until patient heterogeneity is recognized and incorporated into psychotherapy research designs. Thus, psychotherapy researchers must confront the question of "which therapist behaviors produce what changes in which kinds of patients" (Kiesler, 1971, p. 63). A minimal answer to this question requires a design that includes at least one group of subjects, subdivided on some relevant attribute, then randomly assigned to one of at least two forms of treatment. Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) studies have the capability of describing which treatment is best for which clients. However, "traditional" investigations continue to dominate the outcome literature. Studies that compare two or more different treatments are prevalent, despite the availability of appropriate methodological and statistical techniques for ATI research.Unfamiliarity with these methods has probably contributed to the slow growth of this type of research. Developments in ATI research also appear to be hampered by the lack of a unified effort to uncover the most promising client variables for Preparation of this article was supported in part by a Medical Research Council of Canada studentship to the first author and MRC Grant MA5028 to the second author. We would like to thank Lorrie Lefebvre for her help in preparing the manuscript and two anonymous reviewers for their ...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Aptitude-treatment interaction research in the clinical setting: A review of attempts to dispel the "patient uniformity" myth.

Dance

Neufeld²

1988

Psychological Bulletin

101

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“…The spirit of such a matrix approach is basically identical to that of Cronbach’s (1957) ATI paradigm, in which correlational and experimental approaches are combined, and interactions, rather than main effects, are sought. ATI research thus examines the effects of using specific treatment approaches with particular client types, seeking client–therapy interactions (Dance and Neufeld, 1988; Federico, 1984; see also Snow, 1991). This method has recently merited a great deal of empirical attention (Dance & Neufeld, 1988; Federico, 1984; Lewis, 1976; McCann & Short, 1982).…”

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Client-treatment interaction in the study of differential change processes.

Shoham-Salomon

1991

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…Furthermore, the coexistence of straight septum with unilateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy is a very rare phenomenon with a point prevalence of approximately 3 pro mil (0.3%). Cerebral lateralities and hemispheric asymmetries can be considered as aptitudes (Federico, 1984a) and hemispheric asymmetries are important for research and development in instruction and education (Federico, 1984b). The Mantel-Haenszel Chi Square was highly significant (634, df = I,p < .0000001; odds ratio 3323).…”

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A Straight nasal septum and right unilateral hypertrophied inferior nasal turbinate, a very rare anatomical phenomenon, in skilled language translators: Relevance to anomalous dominance, brain hemisphericity and second language acquisition

Backon

Negeris

Kurzon

et al. 1991

International Journal of Neuroscience

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Research on second language acquisition has recently focused on the concept of brain hemisphericity. Since the nasal cycle indexes brain hemisphericity and a deviated nasal septum itself affected by structural brain dominance may prevent nasal cycling, we investigated the presence of septal deviation and inferior turbinate hypertrophy in 11 expert translators. We found that 10 of the 11 subjects demonstrated both a straight nasal septum and right unilateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy, an extremely rare anatomical phenomenon. The one-tailed binomial test was extremely significant (p < .0000001). This anatomical phenomenon, which can be noninvasively checked in less than 30 seconds may predict excellence in second language acquisition.

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Hemispheric asymmetries: Individual-difference measures for aptitude-treatment interactions?

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Aptitude-treatment interaction research in the clinical setting: A review of attempts to dispel the "patient uniformity" myth.

Aptitude-treatment interaction research in the clinical setting: A review of attempts to dispel the "patient uniformity" myth.

Client-treatment interaction in the study of differential change processes.

A Straight nasal septum and right unilateral hypertrophied inferior nasal turbinate, a very rare anatomical phenomenon, in skilled language translators: Relevance to anomalous dominance, brain hemisphericity and second language acquisition

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