Dream interpretation sessions for college students in Taiwan: Who benefits and what volunteer clients view as most and least helpful.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Attitudes Toward Dream measure (ATD) and examine the outcome of dream interpretation for college students in Taiwan. In a sample of 574 college students, factor analysis revealed a single factor for the ATD-Chinese. In the second stage, 60 volunteer clients were assigned randomly to an experimental or control condition. Significant differences were found between experimental and control conditions for postsession ATD-Chinese scores. Initial attitudes toward dreams did not influence perceived gains from dream sessions.

The Use Of Dreams In Modern Psychotherapy

“…The students who were most likely to volunteer to participate were women, had high estimated dream recall, positive attitudes toward dreams, and high levels of absorption (i.e., capacity to restructure one's phenomenal field), and were open to new experiences. In a similar type of study in Taiwan, Tien et al (2006) obtained a slightly higher participant rate of 177 of 574 (31%) students agreeing to participate in a dream session. Those students who volunteered had more positive attitudes toward dreams than those who did not volunteer.…”

“…In four studies (Hill et al, 1997(Hill et al, , 2003Tien et al, 2006), clients mentioned that gaining insight, making links to waking life, hearing a new or "objective" perspective, experiencing feelings/catharsis, and hearing granted for this version to appear in e-Publications@Marquette. Elsevier does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Elsevier.…”

“…Yet another dream-related outcome is change in attitudes toward dreams. Tien et al (2006) applied the Hill model in Taiwan and found that volunteer clients presenting dreams reported better attitudes toward dreams after two to three dream sessions than did controls who did not receive a dream session.…”

Helpful components involved in the cognitive-experiential model of dream work

“…The therapist can also help the client to ritual the dream or to title the dream to empower the client and to solve his/her target problems. This model was believed to be effective from the client's viewpoint (Hill and Goates 2004;Tien et al 2006).…”

Interpreting children’s dreams through humanistic sandtray therapy.

“…The therapist may also need to use aforementioned information processed in the session for helping the child uncover waking life triggers. As reflected in the literature, common themes that may emerge include family relationships, interpersonal relationship struggles, and negative perceptions of self (Tien et al, 2006).…”