The purpose of this thesis is to provide a preliminary examination of the findings of a long term, continuous, research project on psychotherapy. Data have been collected for approximately five years. The plan is for further data to be collected for another three to four years or more. Sufficient data have been collected to enable a substantial look at the findings so far. This is the purpose of this thesis. The research is directed toward answering four questions: (1) What were the categories or kinds of impressive in-session client changes judged to be found in the pool of 40 instances? The research found 8 categories of impressive in-session changes. (2) Were the categories of impressive in-session changes found to occur in an identifiable sequence or sequences? The research found that the impressive in-session client changes occurred in two somewhat overlapping but substantially different patterns or sequences within sessions. (3) For each of the 8 categories of impressive in-session changes, what did the therapist, or therapist and client, do that were judged as enabling the in-session impressive changes to occur? For each of the 8 categories of impressive in-session changes, the research was able to identify and to specify ways that the therapists, and therapists and clients, were judged as enabling the occurrence of the impressive in-session changes. (4) For each of the 8 categories of in-session changes, what did the therapists do following the occurrence of the impressive in-session client change? What the therapists did following the occurrence of the impressive in-session client change was incorporated into the judges' instructions as the identification and specification of ways the therapists used the occurrences. For each of the 8 categories of impressive in-session client changes, the research was able to identify and to specify ways the therapists used the occurrences of the impressive in-session client changes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/6330 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Hamblin Lazaro, Margaret. |
| Contributors | Mahrer, Al, |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 165 p. |
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