The Real Relationship, Therapist Self-Disclosure, and Treatment Progress: A Study of Psychotherapy Dyads

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dc.contributor.advisorGelso, Charles Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorAin, Stacie Claireen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-08T06:11:20Z
dc.date.available2011-10-08T06:11:20Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study examined therapists' and clients' perceptions of their real relationships, the amount and relevance of the therapists' self-disclosures, and treatment progress. Sixty-one therapist-client dyads in ongoing psychotherapy completed measures of these variables. Positive correlations were found between the strength of their real relationships and their treatment progress from both perspectives separately, and when perspectives were crossed. From the therapist's perspective, the amount of therapist self-disclosure positively correlated with both the strength of the real relationship and treatment progress. From the client's perspective, the amount of therapist self-disclosure positively correlated with the strength of the real relationship, and the relevance of therapist self-disclosure positively correlated with treatment progress. Overall the results imply that therapists should strive to strengthen their real relationships with their clients, and that appropriate use of therapist self-disclosure is one intervention that may help strengthen this relationship.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11995
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAnimal behavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledclienten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddyaden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpsychotherapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledreal relationshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-disclosureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtherapisten_US
dc.titleThe Real Relationship, Therapist Self-Disclosure, and Treatment Progress: A Study of Psychotherapy Dyadsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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