Matching the therapist's interpersonal stance to clients' characteristics: Contributions from systematic eclectic psychotherapy.

Beutler, Larry E.; Consoli, Andrés J.

doi:10.1037/0033-3204.30.3.417

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“…The examination of emergent factors may help to guide therapeutic interventions (Beutler & Consoli, 1993;Roth &Fonagy, 1996). For example, adherents to the 'personal relevance' perspective might particularly welcome a therapeutic intervention that attempted to address early traumatic experience, and for some people at least, it has been claimed that voices disappear when underlying problems are resolved or integrated .…”

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A Q‐methodological study of hearing voices: A preliminary exploration of voice hearers’ understanding of their experiences

2003

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Using Q-methodology and structured interviews, this preliminary study set out to explore how a diverse range of voice hearers construed their experience of hearing voices. Following factor analysis of 20 completed Q-sorts, six factors emerged. Pejorative media stereotypes about voice hearers were rejected, and despite the dominance of the biomedical model in our culture, on no factor did participants adhere to all of the biomedical concepts. All six factors endorsed some elements of psychological discourse on voice-hearing experiences. It is argued that attempting to understand voice hearers within a single theoretical framework may limit or adversely affect engagement and understanding of an individual. Consistent with previous research, users of mental-health services were more likely to find voices frightening and perceive them as negative experiences than non-users. However, some non-users found managing some of their voices difficult despite having seemingly positive beliefs about the experience of hearing voices. Comment is made on the potential therapeutic implications of this study along with some acknowledgement of its limitations.

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A Q‐methodological study of hearing voices: A preliminary exploration of voice hearers’ understanding of their experiences

2003

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“…Clients respond in an idiosyncratic manner to the therapist's attempts to respond facilitatively, depending on their own unique needs' (p. 145). Likewise directiveness was shown to be unhelpful with resistance-prone depressed clients (Beutler & Consoli, 1993), but not necessarily with others. The importance of taking account of the client's contribution to process was also suggested by Tallman and Bohart (1999) who pointed out that a straightforward explanation for the outcome paradox (the dodo bird verdict) is that the client contribution to therapy is central: they report evidence which suggests that we do not find many significant differences between techniques because they do not matter as much as the client's capacity for self-healing.…”

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Process research in understanding and applying psychological therapies

Llewelyn¹,

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2001

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…While different clients appear to react differently to different psychotherapies (Beutler & Consoli, 1993) research findings suggest that there are no differences in effectiveness amongst therapies for most problems (Bergin & Garfield, 1994;Kazdin, 1986;Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983;Prochaska & Norcross, 1999;Smith, Glass, & Miller, 1980). However, while no one treatment or approach is uniformly superior, there is an agreement that therapy is more effective than no treatment at all (Bergin & Garfield, 1994;Kazdin, 1986;Lambert & Bergin, 1994;Orlinsky, Grawe, & Parks, 1994;Shapiro & Shapiro, 1982;Smith et al, 1980).…”

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The Counsellor's Self in Therapy: An Inevitable Presence

Reupert

2006

Int J Adv Counselling

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Each counsellor brings his or her personal qualities or what is sometimes referredto in the literature as the "counsellor's self," when working with clients. The aim of this paper is to highlight the theoretical, clinical and research work regarding the self of the counsellor, and to indicate gaps within such work. It is argued here that while the person of the counsellor is vital to the therapeutic process, more work needs to be directed at defining this concept, and describing the process by which the counsellor engages his or her self whilst working with clients, particularly from a trans-theoretical perspective. Such research has implications for the training and supervision of counsellors, as well as providing potentially valuable information for future studies that focus on counsellor variables, particularly those associated with developing the therapeutic alliance.KEY WORDS: counsellor's self; person of the counsellor; personhood; inevitable presence.Each counsellor will bring his or her personal qualities to the therapeutic environment. While referring only to family counsellors, Tester (1992) composed a composite statement defining the counsellor's self in therapy from a group of expert and experienced family therapists as "the therapist's private experience [including] dreams, fantasies, song fragments, urges, fears, wishes, impulses" (p. 165). It is these personal qualities of the individual counsellor that are the primary focus of this paper. More specifically, a review of how the counsellor's self is represented and manifested in the therapeutic environment will be shown. Research gaps conclude the paper, highlighting the need for trans-theoretical or a common factors framework.

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Matching the therapist's interpersonal stance to clients' characteristics: Contributions from systematic eclectic psychotherapy.

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

A Q‐methodological study of hearing voices: A preliminary exploration of voice hearers’ understanding of their experiences

A Q‐methodological study of hearing voices: A preliminary exploration of voice hearers’ understanding of their experiences

Process research in understanding and applying psychological therapies

The Counsellor's Self in Therapy: An Inevitable Presence

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