Therapist Common Factors and Changes in Client Anger Management in the Context of Couple Therapy

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dc.contributor.advisorEpstein, Norman Ben_US
dc.contributor.authorStraub Barrientos, Magdalena Pazen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFamily Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T06:32:52Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T06:32:52Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study investigated the associations between therapist common factors behaviors and changes in client anger control in the context of couple therapy. Research on psychotherapy suggests that common factors are more strongly associated with therapy outcome than model-specific interventions. However, research on the effects of specific common factors on therapeutic outcomes is lacking. This study was a secondary analysis of data from 40 couples that presented with mild to moderate physical and psychological partner aggression and who received couple therapy at a university family therapy clinic. The study examined the associations between five therapist common factor behaviors (warmth, empathy, validation, systemically-based techniques, and session structuring) coded from couples’ fourth couple therapy session and changes in clients’ anger control, as well as the role of gender as a moderator. No main effects were found, and one significant interaction (session structure and gender) was found to be associated with improvements in anger control for males. Implications of these findings are discussed.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2GZ92
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19519
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledIndividual & family studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledClinical psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAnger controlen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAnger managementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCommon factorsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCouple therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSession structureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWarmthen_US
dc.titleTherapist Common Factors and Changes in Client Anger Management in the Context of Couple Therapyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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