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Therapeutic alliance in status termination agreement, disagreement, no-show in couple therapy
No full textThe literature about couple therapy termination is ambiguous in the definition of "drop-out": drop out is the therapy ended with a various number of sessions, but it also depends on the therapist’s opinion, and so on. The termination status definition adopted for the study is: conclusion with agreement, when therapist and partners agree on the achievement of therapeutic goals; without agreement when the partners decide to interrupt therapy and they communicate this decision to the therapist; no-show when the partners don't come to their date, don't give any communication and therapist is unable to reach clients by phone or other means (Bartle-Haring, et al., 2012).
The aim of this study is to explore therapeutic alliance in this three groups of termination status: differences in therapeutic alliance between groups, differences between subjects (men and women) in the same group and between groups, differences in the contributions of therapists between groups.
The therapeutic alliance has been measured whit SOFTA-o (after Italian validation). The top ten sessions have been observed (the top ten and last session for therapies longer). At the time have been observed 198 sessions: 8 therapeutic processes of conclusions with agreement (88 sessions), 9 therapeutic processes of conclusions without agreement (50 sessions); 9 therapeutic processes of no-show conclusions (60 sessions).
Results indicated statistically significant differences between groups for the shared sense of purpose (F: 9.5; α: .000), engagement of men (F: 5.4; α: .005) and emotional connection of men (F: 4; α: .02) and women (F: 6.2; α: .003) between the two groups of drop-out and “agreement”. There aren’t differences intra-groups.
The groups of “without agreement” and “no-show” have a statistically significant difference only for the therapist's contributions in the dimensions of emotional connection (F: 19.1; α: .000) and safety (F: 3.1; α: 0.04)
L’Alleanza terapeutica nelle diverse tipologie di conclusione in terapia di coppia: un confronto tra gruppi, terapeuti e partner
No full textCouple therapy with conflictual and distressed couples. therapeutic alliance, ruptures and repairs
No full textWhen the intimate relationship is stressed and conflictual, great loneliness, angst and suffering emerge and represent a risk factor to partners mental and physical health (Whisman, 2007; Snyder, 2012), as well as parenting skills (Krishnakumar, 2000). There are consistent claims of the effectiveness of Couples Therapy (CT) in reduction of relationship distress and in mental and physical wellbeing of adults and children (Carr, 2009; Fivaz Depeursinge, 2015). However, in CT there is a high risk of drop-out (Allgood, 1991; Bischoff, 1993). Therapeutic Alliance (TA) in CT is one of the most important factors of maintaining the therapeutic process (Escudero, 2015). This study explores the TA in therapies with couples engaged in high levels of distress and conflict. The aim is to investigate: 1) TA in three groups of termination status of CT (Conclusion with Agreement, Without Agreement, No-Show. Bartle-Haring et al., 2012): differences between groups and intragroups (men vs women); 2) differences in therapists between groups; 3) interactive processes of Rupture and Repair of TA. The TA has been measured with SOFTA-o (Italian Validation, Mazzoni, Ciocca, Porcedda, 2015), Ruptures and Reparations have been identified with CIS-r (Colli, Lingiardi et al. 2014) and a qualitative scale specifically developed for the CT. Preliminary results are based on 239 sessions (110 agreement, 63 disagreement, 66 no-show) and show significant differences between groups in intrafamily alliance (F: 15.0, α.000), engagement and security of men (F: 5.6; α:.004; F: 4.8; α:.009), emotional connection of men (F: 6.9; α:.001) and women (F: 7.9; α:.000). There aren’t intra-groups differences. The groups of Without Agreement and No-Show have a statistically significant difference only for the Therapist's contributions in the dimensions of emotional connection (F: 19.9; α:.000). Learn more about TA is important because it can identify crucial clues for clinicians to prevent premature termination on CT
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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