The demand for therapy has increased 400 percent in the past three decades, noting that about 250 different therapies treat the one syndrome shared by all patients, namely, demoralization. Whether such therapies really work is the subject of this report. (JN)

The results were interpreted as demonstrating a relationship between the findings of two independent lines of research on therapy outcome, one basing outcome predictions on client-centered theoretical constructs, the other on the empirical value of the A-B scale. (Author)

Two constrasting psychotherapeutic techniques are compared: (1) Jay Haley and John Davis' technique which tests on the assumption that the therapist enjoys and advantage over the client in terms of power, position and status; and (2) Carl Rogers' technique which rejects the notion that the maintenance of a status differential or interviewer…

The present study aimed at delineating the major dimensions of psychotherapeutic interchange as they appear from three perspectives--patients', therapists', and observers'--and relating these to clinical and empirical assessments of the therapy's outcome. The present aim is to describe the major dimensions of the observer's perspective of the…

Treatment manuals and protocols have made delivery of particular therapies purer and more consistent, initiating a demand that researchers not only use treatment manuals to improve purity of their therapy but document that their efforts to achieve purity have been successful. Strategies that have been used to document treatment integrity are…

The use of play therapy with mentally retarded children and adults is examined. The lack of research on the topic is noted, and information on psychoanalytically oriented play therapy approaches are reviewed. Application of play therapy to mentally retarded clients is explored in terms of two questions: (1) at what level do mentally retarded…

Paradoxical behavior of dependent P females tending to leave psychotherapy prematurely has been linked to the initial tendency of male therapists to be nondirective with females. The proposal was tested by having 43 college females state preferences for directive or nondirective therapist statements on an otherwise verbatim therapy transcript…

Based on a PhD dissertation (Syracuse University).

Different approaches to group therapy can be conceptualized as a continuum made up of possible group goals clustered around three points, i.e., therapy in, with, and of the group. For each point, the goal, pathology, focus/content, communication patterns, therapist's/patient's roles, and optimal size are delineated. (HLM)

Therapist status and sex and the sex-role identity were investigated for females varying in readiness for therapy. Among the results were that high-readiness girls preferred less directive interviewing from high-status therapists. Low-readiness girls, given high therapist status, preferred greater directiveness from male than female therapists.…

Results demonstrated that self-revealing therapists were judged as more friendly, disclosing, trusting, intimate, helpful and facilitating but also as less relaxed, strong, stable and sensitive. (Author)

Antidepressant medications are the most popular treatment for depression in the United States, despite the fact that there may be more effective and safer alternatives. This paper discusses alternative, effective psychological interventions for unipolar depression. Studies that compare and contrast psychological and pharmacological treatments for…

The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis that greater patient identification with the therapist, as defined by increased similarity between the patient's and therapist's semantic differential ratings, moderately correlated with more successful therapy outcome. (Author)

Considered the influence of family upon the individual and how family therapy affected behavior resulting from family interaction. (RK)

Looks at relationship between recovery (symptom reduction) from serious psychiatric disorder and patient-held and therapist-held expectations for recovery. Objective measures of prognostic expectations were taken from patients upon hospital admission and from therapists shortly thereafter. Found that therapists', but not patients', expectations…