Characterizing Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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dc.contributor.advisorHill, Clara Een_US
dc.contributor.authorPinto-Coelho, Kristen Giddensen_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.accessioned2014-06-24T05:47:19Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T05:47:19Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThis mixed-methods study examined therapist self-disclosure (TSD) in 16 cases of naturalistic therapy to describe how real therapists use self-disclosure with real clients and to explore which characteristics of TSD contribute to its effectiveness. Judges coded 185 TSD events from 115 sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy for type (facts, feelings, insight, strategy); whether disclosures were reassuring, challenging, both, or neither; intimacy level; quality level; and initiator. Relationships among these characteristics and clients' session outcome ratings (Real Relationship Inventory and Working Alliance Inventory) were examined using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Likelihood of disclosure occurrence and certain disclosure types and characteristics were related to client post-session ratings of the real relationship and the working alliance. Higher-intimacy disclosures (moderately intimate) were associated with stronger client ratings of the real relationship and the working alliance. It is argued that therapist self- disclosure is multifaceted and complex. Implications for research, training, and practice are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15201
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddisclosureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledreal relationshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-referenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtherapeutic relationshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtherapist self-disclosureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledworking allianceen_US
dc.titleCharacterizing Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychodynamic Psychotherapyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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