Theses and Dissertations from UMD
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Item The real relationship, therapist immediacy, and client experiencing level: A dyad study of psychotherapy process and connection.(2013) Walden, Tamara Tashiko; Gelso, Charles J; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The present study examined the strength of the real relationship (RR) in relation to session quality, therapist immediacy (T-IMM), and client experiencing level (C-EXP) in six psychotherapy dyads over the course of time-limited treatment. Six clients and three therapists completed measures of RR and session quality immediately after each session. Trained judges rated the amount, appropriateness, depth, quality and resolution of T-IMM and the peak and mode level of C-EXP using audio recordings and transcripts post-treatment. This study used the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny & Cook, 1999), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to analyze the data due to nesting and interdepence. No significant associations were detected between therapist or client ratings of RR and session quality, between therapist ratings of RR and T-IMM, or between therapist or client ratings of RR and C-EXP. Client perceptions of RR were significantly related to T-IMM rating dimensions, though not significantly related to T-IMM amount or occurrence. The results indicate that regardless of the amount, when therapist immediacy is used appropriately, with depth, quality or resolution, clients perceive stronger real relationships with their therapists. Implications for practitioners and researchers regarding the findings are discussed. In addition, due to the unique racial/ethnic minority (REM) composition of the majority of the dyads, cultural implications for research and practice are considered.Item Representation(s): A Mutable Process for a Transitioning Urban Landscape(2009) LaCharite-Lostritto, Lisa; Ambrose, Michael; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)To understand the medium is to understand the affects the medium has on the changes and the scale and form of human association and action over time, not only as the medium is being introduced, but also the unconscious and unforeseeable effects the cultural matrix within which the medium operates. Marshall McLuhan Difference is not simply the collapsing [or circulation] of identity, it is also the rendering of space and time as fragmented, transformable, interpenetrated, beyond any fixed formulation, no longer guaranteed by the a priori or by the universalisms of science. Elizabeth Grosz Media can be leveraged as a way to evaluate and inform the built environment. By using media as more than just a communicative necessity, media is capable of directing process. This process seeks to construct a representational framework and narrative through the investigation and translation of cultural, historical, and conceptual contexts. Architecture, as media, functions as a perceptual tool toward the fusion of process and a meta-physical and physical experience. This thesis asks the question: How can these complex contexts create a framework within which the media operates and informs the built environment? The validity of this research in the context of the culture of architectural education is to show that architecture is more than simply applied knowledge and skills translated through conventions of visual communication. Architecture is a way of seeing and thinking that requires understanding of media beyond the idea of tool and production to an idea of performance, process, and methodology.Item THE PROCESS OF IMMEDIACY IN BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY: COMPONENTS, EVENTS AND RELATIONSHIP TO IN-SESSION CLIENT CHANGE WITHIN A SINGLE CASE(2005-07-19) Kasper, Laura B.; Hill, Clara E.; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This study examined the process of immediacy, defined as conversations in-session about the immediate client-therapist relationship. Therapist immediacy interventions, the relationship between immediacy and client involvement, and immediacy events within a single-case were examined. The client was a 24-year-old Middle-Eastern female and the therapist was a 51-year-old Caucasian male. The psychotherapy was interpersonal and included 12 total weekly sessions. Psychotherapy outcome was measured by the OQ 45.2 (Outcome Questionnaire 45.2), IIP-32 (Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-32), and the SUIP-R (Self-Understanding of Interpersonal Patterns - Revised). Session measures included the SEQ-D (Session Evaluation Questionnaire - Depth) and the WAI-S (Working Alliance Inventory - Short). Immediacy and Client Involvement were both judge rated measures and coded based on speaking turns. Immediacy events were identified and analyzed by two judges. Results indicated the sessions were deep and the working alliance was strong overall. The client ended treatment with more symptoms and interpersonal problems, but with a greater understanding of her interpersonal patterns. Results also indicated the therapist used one immediacy intervention, inquiry about the client-therapist relationship, most often and the other two immediacy interventions, self-involving statements and feedback, much less frequently. The client appeared more involved in session when the therapist inquired about their relationship and appeared less involved in session when the therapist used self-involving statements. Client involvement was slightly higher before and after immediacy events than during immediacy events. Nine types of immediacy events were found, none of which involved difficult events (i.e., misunderstandings, alliance ruptures). Events fell into two categories: process and here-and-now events. Process events included reflecting on treatment and the client-therapist-relationship, and drawing the parallel between therapy and outside relationships. Process events occurred throughout treatment. Here-and-now events included the therapist's expression of disappointment, care, and sadness in relation to the client and a desire to connect with the client. There was a changing pattern over time in the occurrence of here-and-now events. The client had the strongest reactions after sessions to here-and-now events, but did not directly express these strong reactions to the therapist in session. Limitations and implications for practice and future research are discussed.Item A New Geographic Process Data Model(2005-03-02) Maxine, Penelope Aurelia Annabell; Albrecht, Jochen; Geography; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Processes, although the subject matter of geography, have not been represented in a manner that aids their querying and analysis. This dissertation develops an appropriate data model that allows for such a process oriented representation, which is built upon a theory of process. The data model, called nen, focuses existing modeling approaches on representing and storing process information. The flux simulation framework was created utilizing the nen data model to represent processes; it extends the RePast agent based modeling environment. This simulator includes basic classes for developing a domain specific simulation and a set of query tools for inquiring after the results of a simulation. The methodology was then prototyped with a watershed runoff simulation. NOTE: The author was formerly called Femke Reitsma.