A5051584886- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health via Writing
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017-2024
Adelphi University
2015-2016
University of Maryland, College Park
2011-2016
University of Toronto
2007
OBJECTIVE. Abnormalities in cognitive function and brain structure have been reported acutely ill adolescents with anorexia nervosa, but whether these abnormalities persist or are reversible the context of weight restoration remains unclear. Brain female subjects adolescent-onset nervosa assessed at long-term follow-up were studied comparison healthy subjects, associations clinical outcome investigated. PATIENTS AND METHODS. Sixty-six (aged 21.3 ± 2.3 years) who had a diagnosis treated 6.5...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use and perceived effects immediacy in 16 cases open-ended psychodynamic psychotherapy. Of 234 events, most were initiated by therapists involved exploration unexpressed or covert feelings. Immediacy occurred during approximately 5% time therapy. Clients indicated post-therapy interviews that they remembered profited from immediacy, with typical observed consequences being clients expressing feelings about therapist/therapy opening up/gaining...
A theory of the research training environment (RTE) proposed by Gelso (Counseling Psychologist, 8:7-35, 1979; Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24:468-476, 1993; The Counseling 25:307-320, 1997) is updated, evidence that bears upon this reviewed. Evidence accumulated over more than three decades supports influence RTE on attitudes, self-efficacy, productivity graduate students in psychotherapy-related fields psychology. Both global 10 ingredients posited are seem to have...
Most of the literature on alliance-outcome association is based exclusively differences between patient reports alliance. Much less known about unique contribution therapist's report to this across treatment, that is, therapist-reported alliance and outcome over course after controlling for patient's contribution. The present study first examine outcome, accounting reverse causation (symptomatic levels predicting alliance), at several time points in treatment. Of 156 patients randomized...
Premature discontinuation of therapy is a widespread problem that hampers the delivery mental health treatment. A high degree variability has been found among rates premature treatment discontinuation, suggesting may differ depending on potential moderators. In current study, our aim was to identify demographic and interpersonal variables moderate association between assignment dropout.Data from randomized controlled trial conducted November 2001 through June 2007 (N = 156) comparing...
Abstract The literature on school bullying and perceived social support primarily relies variable-centered approaches, investigating the independent effects of individual sources support. However, victims perceive different combinations levels from multiple sources. Hence, there lacks a holistic person-centered examination joint study surveyed 915 (51.9% boys, 48.1% girls; M age = 13.52, SD 0.75). Latent profile analysis identified five profiles across (i.e., parents, teachers, classmates,...
Abstract Design: Changes in interpersonal functioning are described a case of brief psychotherapy. Results: Although the client reported having more problems than normative data both before and after therapy, she improved slightly on Inventory Interpersonal Problems. In an interview, insight about patterns greater ability to state her needs. relationship episodes at end compared beginning began responding positively perceptions others expressed less debilitating inhibiting affects (typically...
Studies on therapist factors have mostly focused traits rather than states such as affect. Research related to affect has often looked at baseline well-being or reactions, but not both. Fifteen therapists and 51 clients rated pre- postsession affect, well working alliance session quality, for 1,172 sessions of individual psychotherapy a community clinic. Therapists' became more positive when were initially over the session, negative session. Furthermore, in quality be high. Conversely, low....
Previous research demonstrated the association between parent–adolescent relationship quality and deviant peer affiliation, but it is unclear whether this relation mediated by other psychological interpersonal variables, father– mother–adolescent have different pathways in predicting gender moderates these associations. A sample of 543 students from grades 10 to 12 (42.7% male; age M = 16.2 years, SD 1.0) was selected a Chinese high school Shenzhen, China. They provided demographic variables...
Abstract Objectives Parental self-care is extremely important in the face of stress throughout parenthood. A 21-day online mindfulness-based intervention was developed that aimed at enhancing parental well-being. The present study evaluated this by examining its initial efficacy on parents’ mindfulness, parenting stress, subjective well-being, and symptoms depression anxiety. Methods Participants were 273 parents (90.11% mothers) who randomly assigned to group ( n = 136) or waitlist control...
We examined relationships among the use of therapist directives, client implementation and outcome for 43 Chinese therapists their 96 clients at a university counseling center in mid-China. The results showed that most directives reported by both asked to act on or think about intrapersonal interpersonal issues. giving fewer, but receiving similar number than was found Scheel et al.'s (1999) American sample. Client-rated fit, difficulty, influence did not predict directly, nor client-rated...
Dependency and self-criticism are vulnerability factors for depression. How these personality change with treatment depression how they relate to symptom across different types of require further research. In addition, cultural differences that interact the dependency/self-criticism-depression relation remain underinvestigated. We randomly assigned 149 adults major receive active medication (MED; n = 50), supportive-expressive therapy (SET; 49), or placebo pill (PBO; 50). Participants...
In this study, we aimed to provide a rich description of Chinese graduate international students’ ways coping with adjustment challenges and their subjective appraisal adjustment. Nine students (six women, three men) from different institutions disciplines reported perceptions the broad sociopolitical context, cultural experiences, evaluation We analyzed data using consensual qualitative research method. Findings were summarized into domains: (a) Perceived Sociopolitical Context, (b)...
Therapists and clients often have different perspectives about what is helpful they wish for in therapy, but it unclear how their differ whether agreement implications therapy outcome. In a mixed-method study, 18 therapists were interviewed separately after termination experiences wished had been psychotherapy. Transcripts analyzed using consensual qualitative research. agreed moderately that exploration of the therapeutic relationship, therapists' use challenges, therapist validation...
Therapists' emotion and therapist-client emotional congruence are associated with psychotherapy process outcome. However, their presession states not consistently accounted for across studies, the underlying mechanism is unclear. This study introduces concepts of directional correspondence (DC), where therapists' clients' emotions move in a similar direction from pre to postsession, absolute agreement (AA), therapist client become closer examine change postsession. In addition, perception...
Physical appearance is very important to adolescents and weight gain secondary corticosteroid (CS) treatment may have a direct impact on adolescent development. Understanding in with SLE who are being treated CS will help clinicians develop strategies for prevention of nonadherence, obesity eating disorders this population. Methods: Patients aged 11–18 years old newly diagnosed between January,1995 December, 2006 were identified through the Rheumatology database at Sickkids hospital, Canada....
We compare the results of a series studies (Chui et al., Jackson and Spangler al.) investigating effects training undergraduate students in helping skills courses to use insight (immediacy, challenges, interpretation) after they had learned exploration skills. A comparison instructors indicated similarity across samples. Increases self-efficacy for target skill were found all studies. In addition, components (reading, lecture, video modeling, practice, feedback) be effective, but practice...
AbstractTwelve students from APA-accredited counseling psychology doctoral programs were interviewed about their experiences with peers in program, and values beliefs peer relationships graduate school. Interview data analyzed using consensual qualitative research. Participants reported a wide range of positive (e.g. collaborative supportive) negative competitive hostile) interactions inside outside the classroom, research, clinical work. Compared to advisory supervisory relationships,...
After they learned exploration skills, 103 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use challenges. Prior training, students’ self-efficacy for using challenges did not change, although the quality of written and reflections feelings did. rated themselves as having more judged providing better challenges, there no further changes in feelings. Students maintained at a 5-week follow-up. Self-efficacy increased after lecture, modeling, practice, lab group but indicated that practice...
We briefly review the literature on helping skills training. then provide a rationale for current series of studies, given methodological problems and lack focus teaching insight in previous literature. Next, we an overview rationale, methods, analyses used common across three studies conducted to teach (immediacy, challenges, interpretation, respectively) undergraduate students courses.