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Group psychotherapy

Elsevier eBooks, 2023

Management of Anger in a Therapeutic Community for Drug Addicts

The major focus of this paper is on the problems, solutions and benefits we found in implementing... more The major focus of this paper is on the problems, solutions and benefits we found in implementing Novaco’s (1977) systematic program for anger management in an inpatient therapeutic community for drug addicts. We became interested in implementing such a program in our community because anger and angry transactions are emotional and behavioral patterns frequently encountered among our patient population. In general, it seems that among this population conflict and frustration are handled predominately in one of two ways: either the individual is passive, experiences little or no anger and totally withdraws from conflict, or becomes provoked very easily, experiences intense anger and behaves aggressively. Novaco’s program is designed particularly for the latter response pattern while assertion training and fair fight techniques (Moffett, 1976) are interventions designed for individuals on the passive end of the anger continuum.

Competence, Responsibility, and Authority in Effective Organizational Functioning

Psychiatric Services, 1977

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Group Therapy for Socially Anxious and Unassertive Young Veterans

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1976

Using Clinicians’ Ideal Social Climate Ratings in Group Therapy Training: Staff Development, Supervision, and Teaching

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2015

ABSTRACT A group’s norms are reflected in the group’s social climate, and social climate dimensio... more ABSTRACT A group’s norms are reflected in the group’s social climate, and social climate dimensions have been associated with treatment outcomes in group therapy. However, novice group therapists are often not clear about which norms to develop in a given group. We describe a procedure in which clinicians specify their ideal social climate for a therapy group or a treatment setting on the Group Environment Scale (Moos, 2002) or the Community-Oriented Program Environment Scale (Moos, 1988) and compare their ideals with various reference groups and with one another. Discrepancies in ideal social climate ratings between co-therapists or among clinical staff can be explored in order to enhance coordinated interventions. This procedure has been used with experienced clinicians, trainees, and graduate students in group therapy courses.

Directed self-reflection protocols in supervision

Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 2009

Directed self reflection is an ancillary supervisory method that an experienced therapist can use... more Directed self reflection is an ancillary supervisory method that an experienced therapist can use to prepare a novice therapist for clinical work with an unfamiliar patient population, modality, or setting. First, the supervisor generates a list of questions that address issues known to be problematic for many trainees in a specific clinical site. Prior to contact with patients, the supervisee

Assertiveness, Fears, and Preferred Reinforcements of Patients and Staff in a Therapeutic Community for Drug Abusers

Drug Dependence and Alcoholism, 1981

Clinical descriptions (e.g., MacKinnon and Michels, 1971) of drug addicts portray them as impulsi... more Clinical descriptions (e.g., MacKinnon and Michels, 1971) of drug addicts portray them as impulsive, passive, dependent, having low tolerance for frustration and discomfort including anxiety, and reduced pleasure in living, with especially impoverished interpersonal relationships. Many drug addicts are often indentified as sociopathic, borderline, or narcissistic characters (e.g., Kernberg, 1975; Vaillant, 1975). These clinical descriptions are generally more consistent than the results of standardized measuring instruments. Beyond finding that addicts are clearly more maladjusted than normals, there has been little evidence for a single addictive personality or even for specific personality traits that are characteristic across all populations of drug abusers (Platt and Labate, 1976). Furthermore, the manifest personality of drug addicts may change dramatically when seen in an inpatient rather than an outpatient setting (Vaillant, 1975). In any case, the common stereotype of the drug addict depicts him as a socially undesirable character.

Fostering the ethical sensitivity of beginning clinicians

Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 2014

Beginning clinicians may not recognize potential ethical issues during the course of professional... more Beginning clinicians may not recognize potential ethical issues during the course of professional services. In retrospect, usually in discussions with supervisors, trainees may understand the ethical implications of some events in professional practice. However, this understanding may come too late for the trainee to have acted ethically at the time of the event. We expand on Welfel's (2012) recommendations for teaching ethical sensitivity and describe a method for enhancing ethical sensitivity in both ethics courses and in practicum training. Using the "D" "C" "B" "A" checklist and a related brief mnemonic alerts trainees to such ethical issues as D (danger, duty, documentation), C (consent, confidentiality, compe tence, consultation), B (boundaries), and A (apply decision-making model, act, assess), and does so in a sequence of priority ethical actions.

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Using social-climate scales in group-therapy training

PsycEXTRA Dataset

Dimensions of clinical trainees' appraisals of clinical supervisors beyond a halo effect

by louis moffett and Breanna Wilhelmi

PsycEXTRA Dataset

Conservationism Toward the Natural Environment

Psychological Reports, 1974

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Sex Differences in Self-Concept

Psychological Reports, 1975

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Personality assessment of substance-dependent patients in a therapeutic community

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1996

The design and implementation of a personality assessment system for severely substancedependent ... more The design and implementation of a personality assessment system for severely substancedependent men in a therapeutic community (TC) are described. The system was designed from a treatment utility perspective (Hayes, Nelson, & Jarrett, 1987) and uses the Personality Research Form E (Jackson, 1984) to provide each patient with feedback (a) describing his normal personality traits, (b) predicting his probable pattern of adjustment to the treatment setting, and (c) prescribing specific actions he can take to address potentially problematic behaviors. Discussing the results with the patient helps him cope with the TC. Reviewing the assessment results with the staff promotes their empathy for the patient as a person whose behavior can be understood as an interaction of his personality with the specific demands of the TC rather than seeing the patient in exclusively pathological terms. Specific suggestions for behavior change guide both the patient and the staff and are potentially useful in various treatment settings.

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Sculpture Preferences, Craftsmanship, and Aesthetic Sensitivity

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1975

Sculpture Preferences and Personality Traits

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975

Factor analyzed the preference ratings of 70 male and 70 female undergraduates for 36 slides of s... more Factor analyzed the preference ratings of 70 male and 70 female undergraduates for 36 slides of sculpture. A principal factors solution with orthogonal rotations yielded 6 factors: ambiguous abstraction vs. controlled human realism, mildly distorted representation, emotional detachment, traditional portraiture vs. surrealism, highly distorted representation, and geometric abstraction. Some of these factors were similar to the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and the Pythagorean dimensions previously postualted by Nietzsche and Knapp. Preference scores for each factor were computed and correlated with scores on the 16 PF and with selected educational and physical variables. A few small, significant (p less than .05) correlations were found, supporting the hypothesis that artistic style preferences resemble the personality traits of the spectator.

Art Objects as People: a New Paradigm for the Psychology of Art

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1975

... Human Relations, FESTINGER, L. A theory of cognitive dissonance. Evanston: Row, Peterson, FRI... more

Therapeutic theatre with personality-disordered substance abusers: Characters in search of different characters

The Arts in Psychotherapy, 1990

Assessing depression in substance abusers: Beck depression inventory and SCL-90R

Addictive Behaviors, 1990

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and two subscales of the Symptom Checklist-90R (SCL-90R) were... more The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and two subscales of the Symptom Checklist-90R (SCL-90R) were compared for assessing depression by giving both instruments to 32 inpatient and 22 outpatient substance abusers. For the inpatients (N = 27). l-month test-retest reliabilities were .82, .87, and .84 for the BDI and the two subscales of the SCL-90R respectively. For both inpatients (two occasions) and outpatients, the BDI correlated highly (.82 to .90) with the two depression subscales of the SCL-90R. Using both the BDI and the SCL-90R in the same study may simply provide redundant information rather than a more comprehensive assessment of depression in substance abusers.

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Sculpture Preferences as a Function of Similarity to the Self-Concept

Past research has failed to demonstrate clear, consistent, or strong relations between art prefer... more Past research has failed to demonstrate clear, consistent, or strong relations between art preferences and personality. Hypotheses were generated on the basis of selected theories of art and previous findings in the psychology of art. Also, the assumption of sculptures as psychological persons was developed to extend the paradigms of self-theory, cognitive consistency, social comparison, and interpersonal attraction to include the investigation of relations between art preferences and personality. It was hypothesized that sculpture preferences are positively associated with the similarity of the expressed personality of the sculpture to the self-perceived personality of the spectator. The mean descriptions of 20 slides of sculpture by 50 male and 50 female undergraduates on 10 semantic differential scales were used as a measure of the expressed personalities of the sculptures. Actual-and ideal-self descriptions by a second sample of 50 male and 50 female undergraduates on the same 10 semantic differential scales assessed the spectator's self-perceived personality. Distance measures between the mean sculpture descriptions and the self descriptions were computed and correlated with sculpture preference ratings. Numerous significant (at the .05 level) ANOVA's and t tests demonstrated the effectiveness of the 10 scales in describing the sculptures, the actual-self, and the ideal-self. There was little v support for the central hypothesis. For a few individuals there was a significant relation (at the .05 level) between liking for sculptures and the sculpture's similarity to the self-concept. However, these associations between liking and similarity to self occurred in such various forms that little understanding of the relations among vari ables was achieved. There were few sex differences in the sculpture descriptions or preferences. Sex differences in self descriptions were in the ex pected directions. The 10 semantic differential scales used were considered promising measures of the meaning of sculptures and of self-concepts. Revisions of the central hypothesis were discussed, especially in terms of an attraction-similarity-projection hypothesis. vi Berenson, B.

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Group psychotherapy

Elsevier eBooks, 2023