Utilization of personal therapy by psychotherapists: a practice‐friendly review and a new study

Orlinsky, David E.; Schofield, Margot J.; Schröder, Thomas; Kazantzis, Nikolaos

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“…The racial composition of the sample was 66% European American, 17% African American, 3% Asian American, 9% Hispanic, and 6% other. Compared to 87% of mental health professionals (Orlinsky, Schofield, Schroder, & Kazantzis, 2011), only 34% of trainee therapists in the present sample endorsed having received therapy. Trainees reported a mean time spent in therapy of 7.29 months and a range of 3 months to 8.42 years.…”

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You really are too kind: implications regarding friendly submissiveness in trainee therapists

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Widner³

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To facilitate patient growth, therapists must immerse themselves in the patient’s world while also being able to see what is needed for change. This process requires finding a delicate balance between supporting and pushing patients. Therapists in training are additionally tasked with incorporating supervisors’ suggestions with their own views on what is needed to help their patients. Beginning therapists with tendencies to be overly accommodating may struggle to reconcile these competing demands. Thus, the aim of the present work is to explore how trainee friendly submissiveness (FS) interfaces with psychotherapy. Prior to training, clinical graduate trainee (n = 35) FS was assessed using the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-32. Process and outcome data were then collected from each therapist’s first training case. Specifically, each trainee was assigned an undergraduate student volunteer with whom they had four non-manualized therapy sessions over the academic semester. After the third session, patients and trainees completed questionnaires assessing session impact and the working alliance, and two expert raters coded third session videotapes for techniques. Following termination, patients rated the overall helpfulness of the therapy. Trainee FS was significantly negatively associated with patient-rated depth, alliance, and overall helpfulness with moderate effects. Findings from a mediation analysis further suggested that trainees with higher FS struggled to focus the therapy in a way that felt productive to patients. Implications for clinical training are discussed.

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You really are too kind: implications regarding friendly submissiveness in trainee therapists

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“…There is little variation among other countries concerning this variable. Almost all (79–93 %) therapists in all of the surveyed countries underwent personal therapy [14, 18, 20, 23]. …”

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General Overview of Psychotherapeutic Practice in Poland. Results from a Nationwide Survey

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A total of 1196 persons conducting psychotherapy in Poland fully completed a nationwide online survey (or, alternatively, a paper and pencil enquiry) concerning their education, training, experience, and clinical work (professional environment, patients treated). The results are described in detail and compared with findings of similar studies from other countries. Among the primary findings were: (1) psychotherapy in Poland is conducted mostly by women (80 %); (2) almost all participants have an MA degree (91 %), including 75.2 % having graduated in psychology; (3) the therapists are well trained (mean number of training hours is above 942) and established (average experience is about 9.8 years), however, more than half of the therapists have no type of certificate; (4) 54 % of respondents identify with the integrative or eclectic orientation and, simultaneously, for 48.6 % of the therapists the most important approach is either psychodynamic or psychoanalytic; (5) the most common form of therapy is individual psychotherapy in private practice; (6) the majority of the therapists treat adult patients with anxiety or personality disorders. In sum, the results show that psychotherapeutic practice is well established in Poland and many indices are similar to those found in Western countries.

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“…As noted above, an overwhelming majority of therapists have sought personal therapy, most of them more than once. They are more likely to do so than the general population, and report benefits that are both personal and professional Bike et al 2009;Orlinsky et al 2011).…”

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“…There is considerable research on the topic, including large-scale international surveys of the frequency, timing, and utility of clinicians' personal psychotherapy Orlinsky et al 2011) as well as smaller qualitative studies of therapists' perceptions of the experience (Bellows 2007;Probst 2014Probst , 2015. Yet these studies address only one side of the phenomenon: the impact of personal therapy, usually early in their careers, on clinicians' subsequent practice.…”

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The Search for Identity When Clinicians Become Clients

Probst

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It is widely accepted that those who provide psychotherapy for others benefit from experience in the client role; most clinicians do, in fact, seek their own therapy, as a sizable body of research indicates. Yet these studies address only one side of the phenomenon: the impact of personal therapy, usually early in their careers, on clinicians' subsequent practice. Little is known about what happens when seasoned clinicians move in the other direction--from the ''therapist chair'' into, or back into, the ''client chair.'' These are a special group of clients, reacting to therapy in ways that other groups do not. As this qualitative study of 30 clinical social workers who have returned to the ''patient chair'' indicates, there is a unique struggle for identity and control. The paper explores the impact of that struggle on the therapeutic dyad and therapeutic frame, and concludes with implications and suggestions for further research.

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Utilization of personal therapy by psychotherapists: a practice‐friendly review and a new study

Cited by 86 publications

References 35 publications

You really are too kind: implications regarding friendly submissiveness in trainee therapists

You really are too kind: implications regarding friendly submissiveness in trainee therapists

General Overview of Psychotherapeutic Practice in Poland. Results from a Nationwide Survey

The Search for Identity When Clinicians Become Clients

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