Psychotherapy Pre-Training Using an Introductory Document Offering a Choice as to Therapeutic Framework
Description:
Previous attempts to alter client expectancy and behavior using brief therapy introduction documents have yielded mixed results. This paper reports on the clinical evaluation of such a document which presented individual therapy clients with suggested in-therapy behaviors and offered them a choice as to therapeutic framework. The document told clients that they would be allowed to choose between short term and long term therapy, but woven into the descriptions of these alternatives were repetit…
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Date:
August 1983
Creator:
Smith, Albert Hill
Partner:
UNT Libraries