Examined the relationship between outcomes of behaviorally oriented treatment for children (N=366) and eye color. Findings were consistent with theoretical expectations: Dark-eyed children and teenagers responded better to reactive treatment programs than their light-eyed counterparts, while the reverse was true for self-paced treatment programs.…

A 60-item Q-sort that represented 12 "curative factors" regarded as crucial to the efficacy of psychotherapeutic groups by Yalom (1970) was administered to volunteer undergraduate participants after the end of 20-hour (2 hours weekly) personal growth groups. (Editor)

Studied the amount of supervision, and the congruence of theoretical orientation between the supervisor and trainee in relation to patient change (N=237). Amount of supervision was not related to therapy outcome, but patients showed significantly greater improvement when their trainee-therapists reported theoretical orientations congruent with…

Evaluated the psychotherapeutic adjunct of bibliotherapy in a maximum security correctional setting with 54 volunteers from a general and segregated population. Results indicated that bibliotherapy may have a facilitative effect on self-concept and internal locus of control but cannot be differentiated from the effects of therapist intervention.…

Divided 25 psychoanalytic sessions with a single patient into 10 working sessions, five neutral sessions, and 10 resistance sessions. Using the Regressive Imagery Dictionary on keypunched transcripts, significantly more primary process content and less secondary process content was found in the patient's working-session rather than…

Investigated relationship between patients' session-by-session evaluations of brief psychotherapy and outcome. Results indicated that patients' in-process evaluations were correlated significantly and positively with some positive treatment outcome measures, especially achievement of patients' specified treatment goals, but only during initial and…

There was no direct relationship between patients' dependency scores and the number of sessions in psychotherapy and between patients' ego-strength and attendance in psychotherapy. A statistically inverse relationship existed between dependency and ego-strength scores. (Author)

This study investigated the effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic technique, logotherapy, with terminally ill patients. (Author)

Compared the two definitions used to study therapist interpersonal control: The relational coding scheme of Ericson and Rogers and the topic initiation/topic following schema of Tracey and Ray as they apply to actual therapy dyads. Both schemata were moderately correlated, but the two models attributed control to different participants.…

Studied adults who requested outpatient psychotherapy. Questionnaire items concerned the client's situation, past behavior in fulfilling commitments, self-prediction of session attendance, and reaction to the initial interview. A critical response scale proved highly predictive of the number of treatment sessions attended in both initial and…

Attempted to predict therapeutic persistence with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results revealed only the discriminant function for males achieved a classification accuracy (60 percent) greater than chance expectations; male persisters tended to be less defensive while experiencing greater distress; and female persisters…

Investigated psychologists' judgments of the accuracy of clients' attributions for presenting problems. Clinicians did not differ in estimate of accuracy based on whether attributions were internal or external, but female clinicians were more likely to judge client attributions as accurate. (Author/JAC)

The therapist with similar attitudes was seen as more qualified, higher in interpersonal attraction, and more likeable. Subjects were more willing to recommend or seek therapy from these therapists. Significant interaction indicated that male subjects were more affected by the degree of attitude similarity. (Author)

Thirty Ss were assigned randomly to one of two experimental analogue psychotherapy groups and a control group. Two different psychotherapy techniques were used and were significantly effective in improving self-ratings of self-concept. However, these techniques were differentially effective in improving social skills as measured by behavioral…

The present findings substantiate previous results that demonstrated that an individual's perceived locus of control becomes significantly more internal after therapeutic interventions. (Author)