Topics and signs: Defensive control of emotional expression.

Horowitz, Mardi J.; Stinson, Charles; Curtis, Deborah; Ewert, Mary; Redington, Dana; Singer, Jerome L.; Bucci, Wilma; Mergenthaler, Erhard; Milbrath, Constance; Hartley, Dianna

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.61.3.421

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“…The terms confirmatory and exploratory could be used to distinguish these two types of single-case quantitative analyses. The contributions to this special series by Jones, Ghannam, Nigg, and Dyer (1993) , Spence, Dahl, and Jones (1993) , Silberschatz and Curtis (1993) , and Horowitz et al (1993) all represent exemplars of this category of single-case research. The variety of these four studies illustrates the breadth of this category.…”

Section: Basic Categories Of Single-case Researchmentioning

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Single-case methodology in psychotherapy process and outcome research.

Hilliard¹

1993

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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The primary focus of this article is on delineating and explaining the essential characteristics of single-case research methodology applied within the domain of psychotherapy research. Single-case research is presented as a subclass of intrasubject research in which aggregation across Ss is avoided and the generality of one's findings is addressed through replication on a case-by-case basis. The basic ways in which single-case designs vary are also discussed, and 3 basic types of single-case research are differentiated: (a) single-case experiments, (b) single-case quantitative analyses, and (c) case studies. Furthermore, some of the major weaknesses in current single-case psychotherapy research are identified.

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Section: Basic Categories Of Single-case Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Single-case methodology in psychotherapy process and outcome research.

Hilliard¹

1993

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

153

125

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“…As a parallel process, clients became more aware of the interplay of PV emergences followed by a reassertion of dominant perspectives. Others have described similar forms these defensive manoeuvres may take and how they may change (Mahaliik, 1994;Horowitz et al 1993). This process increased clients' understanding of how they kept themselves protected, perhaps within certain parameters of their own internal 'comfort zone', giving them a kind of control in approaching certain experiences.…”

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Acknowledging problematic voices: Processes occurring at early stages of conflict assimilation in patients with functional somatic disorder

Reid

Osatuke

2006

Psychol Psychother

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Objectives. This study elaborates the assimilation model's account of client processes at an early stage (Level 1). This model describes therapeutic change as a gradual assimilation of problematic experiences, or voices, into the client's personality. The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Scale (APES; Stiles et al., 1991) measures client's increasing ability to recognize, accept and utilize these previously avoided voices. Design and methodology. Two researchers rated session excerpts from two psychotherapy cases, where the ‘problematic voice’ (PV) was initially unassimilated. Passages rated at APES Level 1, along with their verbal assimilation descriptions, were later scrutinized for change processes. Voice dynamics within each passage were detailed and reviewed, to hypothesize substage processes representing movement. Both procedures involved a convergence process: raters first independently analysed, then shared their findings over successive rounds. Conclusions. Across cases, shifts in the quality of negative affect were evident. Anxiety increased throughout this stage, as clients began to sustain exposure to intrusive problematic experiences. Later, Level 1 substages also showed an increase in conscious apperception of dominant voice characteristics including its resistance to experiencing PVs. Together, these relatively subtle changes indicated clients' increasing ability to familiarize themselves with PV qualities and recognize their historic defences against them, prior to identifying and accepting them as part of their personalities.

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“…First, we examined data from three subjects in a series of singlecase studies (Hart, Stinson, Field, Ewert, Horowitz, 1995;Eels, Fridhandler, & Horowitz, 1995 ;Horowitz, Fridhandler, & Stinson, 1992;Horowitz et al, 1991Horowitz et al, , 1993Horowitz et al, , 1994Horowitz, Milbrath, & Stinson, 1995). In each case, we found that grief-related psychopathology was associated with a combination of contradictory role beliefs, leading to potentials for intense but dreaded emotional states and excessive regulation of emotional information processing to ward off these states.…”

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confidence: 93%