Interpersonal Changes among Psychiatric Patients in Human Relations Training

Cohen, Charles P.; Johnson, Dale L.; Hanson, Philip G.

doi:10.1080/00223891.1971.10119701

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“…The fact that the clients in this study did not show increased affiliation at posttherapy is open to further analysis. This finding was observed originally in the Cohen et al (1971) study. In the present study, not only was there no increased affiliation, but a nonsignificant but notable number of successful therapy clients changed to a predominantly hostile interpersonal stance.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…The impact of psychotherapy on clients’ interpersonal attitudes was studied for the group of successful therapy clients. Previous research assessing an interpersonally oriented milieu-based therapy found that inpatients changed toward increased dominance but not toward increased affiliation (Cohen et al, 1971). The present study replicates and extends those findings by determining that a significant number of successful therapy outpatient clients shifted their interpersonal attitudes from submissiveness to dominance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In investigating changes in male inpatients who had completed a 4-week program in milieu therapy designed to treat interpersonal problems, Cohen, Johnson, and Hanson (1971) found that clients showed a significant change from submission to dominance but no significant change on the hostility-affiliation dimension. The present study was an attempt to replicate these findings with outpatient clients in individual therapy.…”

Section: Clients’ Pretherapy Interpersonal Functioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Clients' pretherapy interpersonal attitudes and psychotherapy outcome.

Filak¹,

Abeles²,

Norquist³

1986

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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This study investigated whether clients' pretherapy scores on affiliation-hostility and dominance-submission interpersonal dimensions would be related to outcome of therapy. Fiftyfive outpatient clients who received an average of 24 sessions completed the Interpersonal Checklist (ICL) both at the beginning and at the end of therapy. Successful therapy clients, as rated by both therapist and client, were significantly more affiliative (less hostile) than were less-than-successful therapy clients both before and after therapy. Seventy-two percent, or 21 out of 29, of clients whose predominant pretherapy interpersonal stance was characterized as affiliative had successful outcomes, whereas ony 38% (10 out of 26) of clients whose predominant pretherapy interpersonal stance was characterized as hostile had successful outcomes. No significant differences were observed between outcome groups on the dominance-submission dimension either before or after therapy. However, as expected, a significant number of successful therapy clients showed a pre-versus posttherapy shift in their interpersonal stances from submission to dominance. The results highlight the reported difficulty of short-term dynamic psychotherapy with hostile clients and suggest the importance of assessing clients' pretherapy interpersonal attitudes as one influence on therapeutic process and outcome. Client Characteristics and Psychotherapy OutcomeDecisions regarding clients' appropriateness for individual psychotherapy are a common part of clinical activity. Psychological assessments often contain a clinician's perspectives regarding a client's suitability for and probable responses to psychotherapy, and recommendation whether the client should receive psychotherapy or drjg therapy is often made. These decisions occur despite the evidence that attempts to predict psychotherapy outcome based on pretherapy client characteristics are either only modestly successful or disparaging (

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Section: Clients’ Pretherapy Interpersonal Functioningmentioning

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Clients' pretherapy interpersonal attitudes and psychotherapy outcome.

Filak¹,

Abeles²,

Norquist³

1986

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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The Group Psychotherapy Literature 1971

Lubin

Sargent

1972

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

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The Interpreter's Personality in Draw-A-Person Interpretation: A Study of Interpersonal Style

Scribner¹,

Handler²

1987

J. of Personality Assessment

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This study investigated the relationship between accuracy in figure drawing interpretation and interpersonal style. Subjects were 66 undergraduates who completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Interpersonal Check List (ICL), and a figure drawing interpretation task. The MMPI and ICL were scored and interpreted using Leary's Interpersonal System, which provides for a multilevel assessment of interpersonal functioning. Interpretive skill was found to be associated with "affiliative" interpersonal styles (p < .05), and lack of interpretive skill was associated with "disaffiliative" interpersonal styles (p < .05) at two of the three levels examined. The role of unconscious processes in figure drawing interpretation, the nature of the interpretive process, and implications for the selection of skilled interpreters are discussed with reference to the interpersonal characteristics of the interpreter.

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Interpersonal Changes among Psychiatric Patients in Human Relations Training

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Clients' pretherapy interpersonal attitudes and psychotherapy outcome.

Clients' pretherapy interpersonal attitudes and psychotherapy outcome.

The Group Psychotherapy Literature 1971

The Interpreter's Personality in Draw-A-Person Interpretation: A Study of Interpersonal Style

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