Using session events from nine dyads (counsellors-in-training and their clients), the present study examined how counsellors-in-training react to client weeping events. Trainees' reactions were observed across three different phases of psychotherapy (early, middle, and late) in order to investigate whether there were important changes in counsellors' reactions across time. Two studies---using distinct but complementary methodological perspectives---were employed for this investigation. / Results from the first, quantitative analysis indicated that, during weeping events, trainees adopted a mainly warm and empathic attitude towards their clients. To a lesser degree, they adopted an exploratory stance by working with clients' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Finally, they demonstrated almost no negative attitudes that would be characterized by a defensive or judgmental style. A further important finding from this analysis was that therapist attitudes and behaviours did not significantly change across the three phases of psychotherapy. / A finer-grained, qualitative examination using discovery-oriented methodology indicated that changes in trainees' behaviours and attitudes over time were discernible. Therapists became more focused on the present, learned to balance their focus on clients' cognitions as well as emotions, and used a variety of interventions to do so. Throughout all three phases, they were found to adopt an empathic and accepting attitude towards their clients. Trainees were also found to become more active and solution-oriented in the last phase of therapy. In terms of the quality of trainees' tasks, some commonalities were found between tasks judged positively and negatively regardless of time, however, no clear pattern of quality of tasks was found across the three phases.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.82881 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Georgiadou, Polyxeni |
| Contributors | Stalikas, Anastassios (advisor), DeStefano, Jack (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001986896, proquestno: AAINQ88476, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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