Effects of therapist directiveness on client’s satisfaction
(2016) Annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS) — Location: Thomas More University College, Antwerp, Belgium (24.May.2016)
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- Patient’s level of satisfaction during the first session of psychotherapy determines drop-out (Roos & Werbart, 2013). How can therapists influence this satisfaction? Do their behaviors have an impact? The interpersonal approach could be useful to answer this clinical question because the circumplex model, based on the two main interpersonal dimensions (agency and communion), conceptualizes how behaviors will impact an interlocutor (Sadler, Ethier, & Woody, 2011). Previous studies in our lab showed that the role of the agency dimension is ambiguous in the psychotherapeutic context (Moors & Zech, 2014). The concept of directiveness, near to the concept of agency (Cooper & Norcross, 2016), could be more specific of the psychotherapeutic context, according to a Rogerian conception. Therefore, our specific research question was: Do the therapist’s interpersonal behaviors, and more specifically his directiveness, positively influence client’s satisfaction during a first psychotherapy session?
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Moors, F., & Zech, E. (2016). Effects of therapist directiveness on client’s satisfaction. Annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Thomas More University College, Antwerp, Belgium. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/271253