The stability of interaction chronograph patterns in psychiatric interviews.

Saslow, George; Matarazzo, Joseph D.; Guze, Samuel B.

doi:10.1037/h0047036

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“…By utilizing an interview standardized along certain minimal dimensions, it has been possible to investigate certain characteristics of the overt interaction patterns of different groups of subjects (8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17). Results to date suggest that interviewee interaction patterns have the following characteristics.…”

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Factor analysis of interview interaction behavior.

Matarazzo¹,

Saslow²,

Hare³

1958

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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Our research program has utilized the Chapple Interaction Chronograph for recording the speech and silence behavior of interviewers and interviewees. This paper describes a new electronic interaction Recorder which is more efficient than the earlier recording device. The paper also demonstrates that data collected by these two devices are almost identical. Twenty interviews were recorded simultaneously, on both instruments, and twelve different measures were compared by means of correlation, and through inspection of the variance and means. Consequently, we have concluded that it is possible to compare data from present and future research studies with those obtained earlier with the Chapple Interaction Chronograph. REFERENCES PROBLEM Need characteristics of normals, anxiety neurotics, drug addicts, and paranoid schizophrenics were analyzed in this study. According to the need theory which suggested the research, the marked differences in behavior and adjustment of the above groups should relate to differences in ways in which the groups perceive, feel, and think about basic personality needs. 'The authors wish to express a preciation to Drs. for help in data collection for this study. Sex A1 Aggression A1 Nurturance Att Play J Autonomy J Abaaement A1 Exhibition J Nurturance A1 Exhibition A1 Counteraction J Counteraction Att Dominance J Affiliation A1 Dominance A1 Deference A1 Rejection Att Achievement Att Blame Avoid. J Aggression J Sum J Counteraction A1 Harm Avoid. J Achievement J Sex J Sentience AI Defendance Att Nurturance J Defendance J Poeitive Negative LOW

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Factor analysis of interview interaction behavior.

Matarazzo¹,

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Hare³

1958

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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“…The work of Chapple is of interest in this connexion and observations made with the use of an interaction chronograph which he devised would undoubtedly be of value. Saslow, Matarazzo & Guze (1955) have done much valuable work with the chronograph in measuring various aspects of interviewer-interviewee interaction.…”

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Silence in psychiatric interviews

Jarrett¹

1966

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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The literature on silence in psychotherapy is somewhat diverse, and is confined almost entirely to its theoretical aspects. The following study presents a review of the subject, and considers some problems of management of silence in interview situations, with some suggestions for further investigations. For the purpose of this paper, silence has been defined in the following terms: ‘A period of time during a formal consultation between a therapist and a patient (or patients) when verbal communication ceases.’ Implicit in this definition is the fact that both parties participate in the silence. It is convenient to consider their roles separately.

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“…Measurements yielded by the interaction chronograph for any given interview and used in our analysis include the subject's tempo, activity, his adjustment to the therapist (adjustment), the therapist's adjustment to him, initiative, dominance, subject's synchronization, and therapist's synchronization. The terms used above follow Chapple, and are defined in a recent paper by Saslow, Mataraaao and Guze (7).…”

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Study of therapist behavior in diagnostic interviews by means of the interaction chronograph

Saslow

Goodrich²,

Stein

1956

J. Clin. Psychol.

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PROBLEMAn important aspect of the operation of clinics which evaluate the probable response of patients to behavior therapy is the diagnostic interview of the patient by (usually) an experienced staff member. An attempt is made in such an interview to decide various quest:ons, such as the nature of the disabilities present, the need for further examinations or referrals, the wisdom of the referral to this particular clinic, the probable response of the patient to behavior therapy, the indicated major areas to work on in behavior therapy, the therapist most likely to be effective (of those available), etc. It is generally assumed that the interviewer elicits the behavior and information (conscious and unconscious) relevant to the above questions by inducing as much spontaneity in the patient as possible, despite the necessity for asking some direct questions; this assumption implies careful adjustment of the interviewer's behavior and verbalizations to those of each patient and also necessarily that the spontaneously behaving patient has a characteristic pattern of his own. The following explicit statement of how the interviewer is supposed to function in first contacts with a patient who needs behavior therapy was made by Saslow and Buchmueller(l): "He adjusts his speech and non-verbal activity to the patient's tempo, duration of utterance, and capacity for interruption, so that the patient is as comfortable as possible with him, especially in the first interviews". No data were presented to support the assertion that the interviewer or therapist does in fact behave as assumed. As has been convincingly demonstrated by Kelly and Fiske(2), strong confidence in predictions about human behavior may be inversely related to the measured validity of the predictions.We have therefore considered it necessary to examine the hypothesis that a diagnostic interviewer suits his behavior to that of the patients he examines, in the ordinary course of his work. METHODThe patients interviewed were referred from various clinics at this medical center to a clinic for comprehensive medicine (Medicine D) described elsewhere@).Their disabilities could be single or multiple; they had different degrees of awareness of the reasons for being referred; they accepted referral in diverse ways; had varying attitudes towards behavior therapy and a wide range of probable responses to it; they differed in intellectual ability, and in many other ways. The usual procedure was as follows: Besides the regular diagnostic interviewer (a senior therapist), there were present 2 or 3 therapists-in-training (psychiatric residenta, medical internes, medical social workers, clinical psychologists, or senior medical students). The interviewer read aloud to the group the patient's clinic record, as rapidly as possible, in order to focus the patient's problems to some degree. He then left the room to meet the patient (who had an appointment in Medicine D made a few days earlier), returned with the patient, and introduced the patient to the group. He then turned...

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The stability of interaction chronograph patterns in psychiatric interviews.

Cited by 26 publications

References 12 publications

Factor analysis of interview interaction behavior.

Factor analysis of interview interaction behavior.

Silence in psychiatric interviews

Study of therapist behavior in diagnostic interviews by means of the interaction chronograph

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