The Psychotherapist's Contribution to the Patient's Treatment Career.

Levinson, Daniel J.

doi:10.1037/10591-001

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“…The major variables or domains involved in psychotherapy research, irrespective of theo-retical preconceptions, are summarized in Table 1. Levinson (1962) and Kiesler (1966) have also considered these basic problems. Each of the variables listed in Table 1 may be treated as independent variables through selection or manipulation, exerting main effects and interactions within domains and between domains.…”

Section: Variables In Psychotherapy Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategy of outcome research in psychotherapy.

Paul¹

1967

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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412

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Section: Variables In Psychotherapy Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategy of outcome research in psychotherapy.

Paul¹

1967

Journal of Consulting Psychology

929

412

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“…11]." Levinson's (1962) paper is representative of several research reports that imply a relationship between "social class" of therapist and client, on the one hand, and what we refer to as convergence, on the other.…”

Section: Convergence During Therapymentioning

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Convergence: A phenomenon in counseling and in psychotherapy.

Pepinsky¹,

Karst²

1964

American Psychologist

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“…It is when the patient has attended for ten or more sessions, (when therapy has gone beyond what Levinson (1962) calls the "stage of candidacy"), that socioeconomic class becomes a statistically significant differentiating factor. At that point, social class was found to significantly covary with the therapist's discipline, with whether medication was prescribed and with whether the patient had attended A.A. concomitant with clinic treatment.…”

Section: (A) the Effects Of Social Class On Outpatient Treatmentmentioning

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Social Class, Length of Treatment Contacts and the Outpatient Treatment of Alcoholism

Kalb

1975

British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs

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Previous research has indicated that one of the prime factors in determining the kind of outpatient treatment the alcoholic receives is his social class. Concomitantly it has also been shown that how long the alcoholic stays in treatment varies with his social class. The issues become therefore: (1) Does the alcoholic's social class effect the kind of outpatient treatment he receives regardless of how long he remains in treatment? (2) Does length of treatment contact effect the kind of treatment given to the alcoholic regardless of his social class?By controlling for the variables of social class and length of treatment contacts, the results of this study indicated that when the alcoholic patient attended for three or less treatment sessions {low treatment contact), his social class was not significantly related to the discipline of the therapist he saw, whether medication was prescribed, or whether he attended A.A. concomitant with his clinic treatment. When, however, the alcoholic patient attended for ten or more sessions {high treatment contact), social class was significantly related to all outpatient dependent variables studied.In addition, the findings indicated that for the middle class alcoholic, length of treatment contact was unrelated to the kind of outpatient treatment received, while for the low social class alcoholic, the kind of outpatient treatment received covaried ttiith the length of treatment contact. These findings suggest that the factors that keep middle class alcoholics in treatment appear to lie outside of the patient-clinic interaction, tvhile for the low social class patients such interactions play a significant role in determining whether they continue in or drop out of treatment.The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of "matching" the needs of the alcoholic and particularly the low social class alcoholic to a particular therapeutic program at a very early point in treatment. Such attempts, it is believed, would reduce the high clinic attrition rate and foster a more favorable prognosis.

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The Psychotherapist's Contribution to the Patient's Treatment Career.

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Strategy of outcome research in psychotherapy.

Strategy of outcome research in psychotherapy.

Convergence: A phenomenon in counseling and in psychotherapy.

Social Class, Length of Treatment Contacts and the Outpatient Treatment of Alcoholism

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