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The influence of supervision and facilitative conditions on the psychotherapeutic effectiveness of nonprofessional and professional herapists
Author(s) -
Karlsruher Averil E.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00881936
Subject(s) - citation , wife , library science , psychology , health psychology , medicine , public health , law , political science , nursing , computer science
Sixty poorly adjusted, fifth- and sixth-grade males were randomly assigned to experimental groups seen by professional, supervised nonprofessional, and unsupervised nonprofessional therapists, as well as to a no-treatment control. The therapists saw their clients 10 times. Excerpts from the 3rd and 7th sessions were rated by trained raters for facilitative conditions. Change in clients was studied through instruments which assessed change from three vantage points--the child's, his teacher's and his therapist's. Individual as well as group data demonstrated significant superiority of supervised nonprofessionals over unsupervised nonprofessionals. Changes in clients treated by professionals tended to cluster close to those treated by supervised nonprofessionals. Several significantly negative correlations between facilitative conditions and criteria of psychotherapeutic change were discovered.