Psychotherapy sabotage revisited: the better half of individual psychotherapy.
This study examined the amount of actual client self-disclosure emitted and the pattern of its occurrence within and across individual therapy sessions. An earlier finding showed that many clients avoided self-disclosure until the session's closing minutes early in therapy. These data revealed that in the middle stages of short-term therapy for a university population (N = 26) clients continue to engage in the highest proportion of self-disclosure during the latter half of the therapy hour. The position that there are ways in which psychotherapy sabotage can be reduced was discussed.
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D012649:Self Concept; D012650:Self Disclosure; D013333:Student Health Services; D013997:Time Factors