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Greenspon, Thomas S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Within our competitive culture, some perfectionistic students do well, whereas others are overwhelmed. The personal characteristics of these perfectionistic students should not be construed as positive or adaptive perfectionism. A distinction is made between perfectionism and the pursuit of excellence. The intensity of the anxiety at the core of…
Descriptors: Competition, Psychological Patterns, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics
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Baldwin, Scott A.; Imel, Zac E.; Atkins, David C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Crits-Christoph, Connolly Gibbons, Hamilton, Ring-Kurtz, and Gallop (2011) used generalizability theory to critique the measurement of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy research, showing that the dependability of alliance scores may be quite low, which in turn can lead to attenuated alliance-outcome correlation estimates. Method…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Generalizability Theory, Counselor Client Relationship, Scores
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Hill, Clara E. – Counseling Psychologist, 2012
Three psychotherapy theories are summarized and critiqued for their applicability to counseling psychology. The lack of attention to psychodynamic and experiential theories in the special section and the lack of theorizing by counseling psychologists in general are lamented. A plea is made for encouraging counseling psychologists to construct more…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Counseling Psychology, Psychologists, Counseling Theories
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Witkon, Yael – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2012
This paper describes the setting up and the first year of running of an innovative outreach service for adolescents on the edge of care that aimed at redressing family breakdown and preventing placements in the care system. It was a collaborative endeavour between social services and a child and adolescent mental health provision to facilitate the…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Intervention, Outreach Programs, Adolescents
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Symington, Ashley – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2012
The effectiveness of grief counseling may be enhanced through the utilization of equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP). An experiential, solution-focused, and natural approach, EAP provides clients with the opportunity to discover solutions to challenges that exist within themselves. Counselors and equine specialists team with horses to provide a…
Descriptors: Grief, Counseling Effectiveness, Confidentiality, Counselor Training
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Devi, Akasha; Fenn, Edwin – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2012
This paper describes a systematic thematic analysis of one particular latency-aged children's group and includes a discussion about potentially helpful outcomes measures. The impetus for our small, practice-based qualitative research project came from the two papers by Reid (1999) and Canham (2002) about children's psychotherapy groups,…
Descriptors: Age, Psychotherapy, Qualitative Research, Group Therapy
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Rodgers, Neil – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2012
The professional identity of counsellors and guidance practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand is currently under review as a result of the passing of legislation regulating health professionals and the proposed introduction of national registration of counsellors. In this paper I explore this debate, and examine the professional identities claimed…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Foreign Countries, Identification, Counseling Psychology
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Holman, Gareth; Kohlenberg, Robert J.; Tsai, Mavis – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop a brief Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) protocol that will facilitate reliable implementation of FAP interventions, thus supporting research on FAP process and outcome. The treatment was a four-session individual therapy for clients who were interested in improving their relationship with their…
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychotherapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Counselor Client Relationship
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Pollard, Jeffrey W.; Nolan, Jeffrey J.; Deisinger, Eugene R. D. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2012
This article provides an overview of threat assessment and management as implemented on campuses of higher education. Standards of practice and state calls for implementation are cited. An overview of some of the basic principles for threat assessment and management implementation is accompanied by examples of how they are utilized. Pitfalls…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, School Security, Campuses, Higher Education
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Town, Joel Michael; McCullough, Leigh; Hardy, Gillian E. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2012
This paper describes the profile of verbal response modes utilised in the expert application of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP). One hundred and fifteen randomly selected segments from six treatments of STDP were analysed. Trained raters used a verbal response mode coding system to examine the individual speaking turns of an expert…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Relationship, Profiles, Intervention, Psychotherapy
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Cag, Pinar; Voltan Acar, Nilufer – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The movie "Ya Sonra" is evaluated in respect to the basic concepts and principles of symbolic-experiential family therapy. Carl Whitaker, who called his approach "Psychotherapy of Absurdity" mainly emphasized the concepts of absurdity, experientiality, and symbolism. Based on the hypothesis that film analysis supports and…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Therapy, Psychotherapy, Film Study
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Thombs, Brett D.; Jewett, Lisa R.; Bassel, Marielle – American Psychologist, 2011
Comments on the original article, "The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy," by J. Shedler. Shedler declared unequivocally that "empirical evidence supports the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy" (p. 98). He did not mention any specific criticisms that have been made of evidence on psychodynamic psychotherapies or address possible distinctions…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Psychotherapy, Criticism, Meta Analysis
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McKay, Dean – American Psychologist, 2011
Comments on the original article, "The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy," by J. Shedler. Shedler summarized a large body of research that shows psychodynamic therapy to have a substantial effect size, comparable to that for many empirically supported treatments. This is an important finding, in part refuting the concerns raised by Bornstein…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Psychotherapy, Effect Size, Cognitive Restructuring
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Botterill, Willie – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
This article looks back over the years and identifies some of the most influential thinkers, writers, and researchers who have had a profound effect on the way the therapy at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in London has evolved. It tracks the changes that have occurred in theoretical perspective, treatments offered, and the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Stuttering, Psychotherapy, Therapy
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Cohen, Shuki J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
This study presents a novel methodology for the measurement of negativity bias using positive and negative dictionaries of emotion words applied to autobiographical narratives. At odds with the cognitive theory of mood dysregulation, previous text-analytical studies have failed to find significant correlation between emotion dictionaries and…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Grammar, Dictionaries, Personal Narratives
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