What to Expect in the Intake Interview? Impression Management Tactics of Psychotherapy Patients

The responsiveness problem in psychotherapy: A review of proposed solutions.

“…Responsiveness may be more obvious in certain types of client–therapist dyads. Frühauf, Figlioli, Oehler, and Caspar (in press) showed that impression management tactics (e.g., supplication, self-promotion) by clients in the intake interview were present particularly when a male client was treated by a female therapist. Finally, using qualitative analysis of transcripts involving three clients being treated by Carl Rogers, Bohart and Byock (2005) concluded that the client's framework of understanding and construing influences what he or she perceives from the therapist response (see Bohart, 2007, for an extended discussion).…”

Maternal Impression Management in the Assessment of Childhood Depressive Symptomatology

“…a raw score less than 10 on the defensive responding subscale; Abidin, 1990); a similar distribution of defensive responding scores and standard deviations has been reported in other samples (i.e. 30%; Frühauf et al, 2015). Pearson correlations were conducted to examine hypotheses (a) to (d).…”

Patients’ Self-presentational Tactics as Predictors of the Early Therapeutic Alliance

“…Sixty videotaped intake interviews were analyzed. The design and selection of the sample has been described in detail elsewhere (Frü hauf et al, 2015).…”

“…The moti-vation to use these behaviors is believed to be strongest in the first contact, and people are particularly motivated to manage the impressions they make on strangers (Leary et al, 1994). Hence, we investigated selfpresentational tactics of patients during the intake interview where patients are meeting their therapist for the first time, and we found that patients use such tactics in roughly 30% of their utterances (Frü hauf, Figlioli, Oehler, & Caspar, 2015). Given that researchers have indicated a constant influence between therapist and patient, and that first impressions are critical in the development of a relationship, it seems plausible that patients' attempts to influence their therapists' perceptions of them have an effect on the therapeutic alliance.…”

“…The calculation of inter-judge agreement and reliability have been described in detail elsewhere (Frü hauf et al, 2015). Twenty percent of the videos (12 out of the 60 videos) were double-coded to calculate inter-judge agreement, as suggested by Wirtz and Caspar (2002).…”