Interpersonal process in psychotherapy through the lens of the structural analysis of social behavior

Constantino, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/s0962-1849(05)80002-2

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“…The SASB is a circumplex model of interpersonal behavior described by Pinsof (1981) as one of the best integrated and coordinated approaches to family process analysis. The SASB coding system is widely used to study psychotherapy interventions (e.g., Constantino, 2000; Henry, 1996), adult personality, and parent–child interactions (e.g., Florsheim, Tolan, & Gorman-Smith, 1996; Skowron, Kozlowski, & Pincus, 2010). Mother and her child were seated together at a small table for the task, and the child was given colored duplo blocks and instructed to build a figure identical to the model provided.…”

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Cardiac vagal tone and quality of parenting show concurrent and time-ordered associations that diverge in abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating mothers.

Skowron

Cipriano-Essel

Benjamin

et al. 2013

Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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Concurrent and lagged maternal respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was monitored in the context of parenting. One hundred and forty-one preschooler-mother dyads—involved with child welfare as documented perpetrators of child abuse or neglect, or non-maltreating (non-CM)—were observed completing a resting baseline and joint challenge task. Parenting behaviors were coded using SASB (Benjamin, 1996) and maternal RSA was simultaneously monitored, longitudinally-nested within-person (WP), and subjected to MLM. Abusive and neglectful mothers displayed less positive parenting and more strict/hostile control, relative to non-CM mothers. Non-CM mothers displayed greater WP heterogeneity in variance over time in their RSA scores, and greater consistency over time in their parenting behaviors, relative to abusive or neglectful mothers. CM group also moderated concurrent and lagged WP associations in RSA and positive parenting. When abusive mothers displayed lower RSA in a given epoch, relative to their task average, they showed concurrent increases in positive parenting, and higher subsequent levels of hostile control in the following epoch, suggesting that it is physiologically taxing for abusive mothers to parent in positive ways. In contrast, lagged effects for non-CM mothers were observed in which RSA decreases led to subsequent WP increases in positive parenting and decreases in control. Reversed models were significant only for neglectful mothers: Increases in positive parenting led to subsequent increases in RSA levels, and increases in strict, hostile control led to subsequent RSA decreases. These results provide new evidence that concurrent and time-ordered coupling in maternal physiology and behavior during parenting vary in theoretically meaningful ways across CM and non-CM mothers. Implications for intervention and study limitations are discussed.

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Cardiac vagal tone and quality of parenting show concurrent and time-ordered associations that diverge in abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating mothers.

Skowron

Cipriano-Essel

Benjamin

et al. 2013

Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

127

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“…In the SASB cluster model (illustrated in Figure 1) each surface is divided by the two axes into eight possible clusters of behavior that represent different combinations of affiliation and interdependence (Benjamin & Cushing, 2000). The structural fidelity of SASB has been well-established by factor analysis, circumplex analysis, dimensional analysis, and autocorrelation (Benjamin, 1974; Benjamin, Rothweiler & Critchfield; Pincus, Gurtman, & Ruiz, 1998), and the system has been effectively applied to the study of psychotherapy dyads (Constantino, 2000). …”

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Early therapy interpersonal process differentiating clients high and low in outcome expectations

Ahmed

Westra

Constantino

2012

Psychotherapy Research

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The present study compared early interpersonal process, during resistant and cooperative segments of session 1, between clients who went on to have low (n=9) versus high (n=8) treatment outcome expectations. Baseline outcome expectations were assessed prior to any therapist contact. During resistance episodes, there was substantially less affiliative reciprocity (i.e., complementarity), and greater client separation and hostility in the low versus high expectations group. During cooperation episodes, therapists of low versus high outcome expectation clients engaged in lower levels of affirming and understanding, and higher levels of control. These findings suggest a potentially potent association between in-session interpersonal process and early client outcome expectations.

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“…The Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour (SASB; Benjamin, 1996;Benjamin & Cushing, 2000, see Figure 1) coding system was used to observationally code parenting behaviour during a 3-5-minute moderately challenging joint teaching task (i.e., Duplo Blocks; Hoffman, Crnic, & Baker, 2006). SASB is a pantheoretical coding system widely used to study psychotherapy interventions (e.g., Constantino, 2000;Henry, 1996), adult personality, and parent-child interactions (e.g., Florsheim, Tolan, & Gorman-Smith, 1996;Skowron, Kozlowski, & Pincus, 2010). Each pair of mother and child was seated together at a small table for the task, and the child was given coloured duplo blocks and instructed to build a figure identical to the model provided.…”

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Heterogeneity in Maltreated and Non‐maltreated Preschool Children's Inhibitory Control: The Interplay Between Parenting Quality and Child Temperament

Cipriano-Essel

Skowron

Stifter

et al. 2013

Infant and Child Development

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This study examined the contribution of child temperament, parenting, and their interaction on inhibitory control development in a sample of maltreated and non-maltreated preschool children. One hundred and eighteen mother–child dyads were drawn from predominantly low-income, rural communities. Dyads participated in a laboratory session in which maternal warm autonomy support, warm guidance, and strict/hostile control were observationally coded during a joint teaching task. Independent assessments of children’s inhibitory control were obtained, and observers rated children’s temperament. After relevant covariates, including income, maternal education, and child age and IQ were controlled for, there were no differences between the maltreatment and non-maltreatment groups in either children’s inhibitory control or mothers’ behaviours in the laboratory session. Even after much of the variance in children’s inhibitory control was accounted for from the covariates, children’s temperamental negativity moderated the effects of warm autonomy support on inhibitory control in both maltreatment and non-maltreatment groups. Temperamentally negative children whose mothers displayed more warm autonomy support showed greater inhibitory control, at levels on par with low-negative children. Findings suggest that heterogeneity in children’s self-regulation may be due in part to individual differences in sensitivity to caregiver support for children’s independence, even among those exposed to maltreatment.

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Interpersonal process in psychotherapy through the lens of the structural analysis of social behavior

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

Cardiac vagal tone and quality of parenting show concurrent and time-ordered associations that diverge in abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating mothers.

Cardiac vagal tone and quality of parenting show concurrent and time-ordered associations that diverge in abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating mothers.

Early therapy interpersonal process differentiating clients high and low in outcome expectations

Heterogeneity in Maltreated and Non‐maltreated Preschool Children's Inhibitory Control: The Interplay Between Parenting Quality and Child Temperament

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