The effect of therapist self-disclosure on patients' perceptions of empathy, competence and trust in an analogue psychotherapeutic interaction.

Curtis, John

doi:10.1037/h0088417

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“…Similarly, for example, therapists who commiserate with clients around similar interpersonal difficulties (for example, spousal infidelity) may be perceived by clients as incapable of helping them. In fact, too much therapist self‐disclosure (Curtis, 1982) has been found to have a detrimental effect on the client's perception of therapist empathy, and competence.…”

Section: Identifying Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy

Cunningham¹,

Henggeler

1999

Family Process

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Multisystemic therapy (MST) is a family-based treatment model that has achieved high rates of treatment completion with youths who present serious clinical problems, and their families. The success of MST in engaging challenging families in treatment is due to programmatic commitments to family collaboration and partnership as well as to a conceptual process that delineates barriers to family engagement, develops and implements strategies to overcome these barriers, and evaluates the success of these strategies. This article provides an overview of the nonspecific/universal engagement strategies used by MST therapists, frequently observed barriers to achieving therapist-family engagement, and specific strategies to overcome a sampling of these barriers.

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Section: Identifying Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy

Cunningham¹,

Henggeler

1999

Family Process

115

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“…A non-confirmatory finding was reported by Curtis (1982a). The author exposed 57 participants to one of three written scripts featuring no counselor self-disclosure, a global moderate therapist self-disclosure, or a personal high-level disclosure by the simulated counselor.…”

Section: Research On Counselor Self-disclosure and The Therapeutic Rementioning

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“…Examination of Curtis' (1982a) method may explain the discrepant finding from Murphy and Strong (1972) and from Mann and Murphy (1975). First, while Curtis used actual therapy clients, they were exposed to a written script rather than a live interaction with a counselor as was the procedure in Murphy and Strong (1972) and Mann and Murphy (1975).…”

Section: Research On Counselor Self-disclosure and The Therapeutic Rementioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, while Curtis used actual therapy clients, they were exposed to a written script rather than a live interaction with a counselor as was the procedure in Murphy and Strong (1972) and Mann and Murphy (1975). Second, the scripts used by Curtis (1982a) depicted therapist disclosures that may be considered negative and/or inappropriate; the high-level disclosure was that the counselor also experienced depression like the client. Such a disclosure could easily have been perceived by participants as an attempt to redirect the focus from the client to the counselor's self, or possibly to engender care and concern for the therapist from the client.…”

Section: Research On Counselor Self-disclosure and The Therapeutic Rementioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of an analogue counselor's religious or financial self-disclosure and observer characteristics on therapeutic processes

Young

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At the end of this long and winding road, I feel the need to acknowledge with gratitude the contributions and support of the many people without whom I might still be detoured. Foremostly, I wish to thank my major professor and mentor, Dr. Norman Scott, for his unceasing support of my interest in the line of research which gave life to this dissertation. Even when recovering from heart surgery, Dr. Scott did not forget to encourage my efforts on the project. His wisdom and guidance are evident on each page of this document, and in all aspects of the psychologist am I to become. I must also praise the love and support I have received from so many of my dear family and friends. My parents have always fostered my love of learning and are very much responsible for this first-generation college student being able to claim the title "doctor". My dear friends ranging from those from elementary to those in my doctoral program also must be credited with helping provide support and suggestions which so enriched this project (and kept me alive while working on it!). I also wish to thank the faculty members who served on my dissertation committee and provided their expertise on this project. To Dr. Douglas Bonett, I owe much appreciation for the many statistical consultations which not only helped me "crunch the numbers", but also provided me invaluable leads and insight into how to frame my discussion of the results. Drs. Nathaniel Wade and Patrick Armstrong each contributed their vast knowledge of psychology and religion, and process research, respectively. Finally, I also wish to heartily thank Dr. Brad Shrader for bringing the novelty of his unique outside perspective to the project, and tempering that perspective with such kindness. vi As this dissertation builds on the video-stimuli created in my thesis, I must also recall the contributions provided by those five individuals who labored to help me create the clips. I thus acknowledge the fine acting provided by Laura Zishka, Ashley Buller, Ken Hiveley, and Matt Anthoney, whose efforts allowed the creation of the counseling simulation videos at the heart of this project. I also wish to thank Professor Sarah Zwick-Tapley, whose theatrical expertise on editing the scripts and providing directing suggestions increased the realism of my work many times over. Finally, though this project is a work of science, it seems fitting to acknowledge the faith(s) that drove it. Because religion is so important in the worldviews of so many people, I concur with those who argue that competency in religious issues must be an ethical mandate of counseling psychologists. I must, however, also acknowledge that my own personal faith (in God or whatever higher sense of connectedness binds humanity and creation together) no doubt was strongly involved in my journey through this project. While this dissertation journey is over, I pray that I, and all psychologists, continue to be guided toward a more empathic and culturally-sensitive understanding of the spiritual and religious lives of those w...

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“…The lack of a significant relationship between therapist trust of their client and client trust of their therapist is of particular interest, as it suggests that these two constructs should be measured separately. Along these lines, an early study found that therapist self-disclosure, which one can hypothesize is likely more common when the therapist trusts the client, actually has a negative association with client trust of the therapist in an analogue therapy interaction [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust and respect in the patient-clinician relationship: preliminary development of a new scale

Crits‐Christoph

Rieger²,

Gaines

et al. 2019

BMC Psychol

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BackgroundTrust and respect may be an important component of client-provider relationships. This study aimed to develop and report preliminary psychometric analyses of a new brief measure to evaluate a patient’s level of trust and respect for their clinician. The scale was designed to be applicable in multiple healthcare contexts, with a particular focus on mental healthcare.MethodsAdult patients completed the study survey in an academic outpatient psychiatric clinic waiting room. Classical and Item Response Theory (IRT) analyses were utilized to examine the adequacy of scale items. Validity was examined in relation to the patient-therapist alliance and to willingness to share private information (social media content) with one’s clinician.ResultsBeginning with 10 items, a final 8-item version of the measure was created with an internal consistency reliability of .91. Principal components analysis indicated that the scale was best viewed as capturing one overall dimension. A Graded Response Model IRT model indicated that all items contributed information on the latent dimension, and all item curves were not flat at any region. The correlation of the trust/respect total score with the alliance was .53 when respect-related items were deleted from the alliance score. The trust/respect scale was significantly associated with patient willingness to share social media posts with their clinician but the alliance was not.ConclusionsThe brief measure of patient trust and respect towards their clinician was unidimensional, showed good internal consistency, and was not redundant with existing measures of the alliance. The scale has the potential to be used in a wide variety of healthcare settings.

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The effect of therapist self-disclosure on patients' perceptions of empathy, competence and trust in an analogue psychotherapeutic interaction.

Cited by 20 publications

References 29 publications

Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy

Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy

Effects of an analogue counselor's religious or financial self-disclosure and observer characteristics on therapeutic processes

Trust and respect in the patient-clinician relationship: preliminary development of a new scale

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