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Patients' expectations of the therapist role
Author(s) -
Freeman R. Beth,
Viney Linda L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197710)5:4<372::aid-jcop2290050412>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , construct (python library) , sample (material) , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , chemistry , chromatography , computer science , programming language
A pool of items concerned with expectations of the therapist role was administered in two forms (original and reduced) to two samples of patients making their initial contact at a psychiatric outpatient clinic. Five of the eight factors from the first patient sample were consistent with the client‐centered model. In the second sample, of the four factors extracted Empathy and Commitment formed one factor independently of Genuineness. In both samples, expectations of Confrontation and Directiveness were independent. Individual differences in patients' expectations and correlations with other demographic and expectation data were reported to support the construct validity of the dimensions which yield a new measure of patients' expectations.