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Daring to influence personality via Zoltan Gross’ approach to psychotherapy : an experimental study on appraising interventions focused on habit validation vs. habit interruption
| Resumo: | Zoltan Gross (1992; in press) offers a bold approach to therapy focused on personality change. Because habits are reinforced by their validation, breaking dysfunctional behavior patterns will sometimes mean denying this validation. Gross’ approach is a balancing act between the need to maintain a strong alliance and pulling clients out of their comfort zones. A study by Lopes (2018), working from Zoltan Gross’ principles, found therapists preferred validation to habit interruption. We investigated the preference and reasons behind it. This between-groups study sorted participants into three experimental groups. Each group was exposed to a video showing a therapist in session, Gross, performing either habit validation (HV) or one of two types of habit interruption (HI): of selfpresentation (HIsp) and of emotionality (HIe). We asked participants to rate his performance. We constructed rating scales for therapist’s focus on habit intervention and for therapist’s facilitative interpersonal skills. We then showed participants one video where client and therapist mend their alliance and asked if they would change their previous ratings after watching this. Groups were compared through the Bonferroni procedure. Participants in HV approved significantly more of the therapist than participants in either HI. This aligns with Lopes’ results. Focus on habit intervention did not differ between groups. Facilitative interpersonal skills’ ratings differed between HV and HI. There were no significant differences between both HI, for any of these measures. Participants in HIsp were most inclined to increase their previous ratings, followed by HIe, then HV. A chisquare test suggests these distributions were not independent of manipulation. Implications were discussed for therapy focused on personality change and testing for the Zoltan Gross approach. |
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| Autores principais: | Vale, Adelino Alexandre Dourado do |
| Assunto: | Validação Hábitos Mudança de personalidade Teses de mestrado - 2019 |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Zoltan Gross (1992; in press) offers a bold approach to therapy focused on personality change. Because habits are reinforced by their validation, breaking dysfunctional behavior patterns will sometimes mean denying this validation. Gross’ approach is a balancing act between the need to maintain a strong alliance and pulling clients out of their comfort zones. A study by Lopes (2018), working from Zoltan Gross’ principles, found therapists preferred validation to habit interruption. We investigated the preference and reasons behind it. This between-groups study sorted participants into three experimental groups. Each group was exposed to a video showing a therapist in session, Gross, performing either habit validation (HV) or one of two types of habit interruption (HI): of selfpresentation (HIsp) and of emotionality (HIe). We asked participants to rate his performance. We constructed rating scales for therapist’s focus on habit intervention and for therapist’s facilitative interpersonal skills. We then showed participants one video where client and therapist mend their alliance and asked if they would change their previous ratings after watching this. Groups were compared through the Bonferroni procedure. Participants in HV approved significantly more of the therapist than participants in either HI. This aligns with Lopes’ results. Focus on habit intervention did not differ between groups. Facilitative interpersonal skills’ ratings differed between HV and HI. There were no significant differences between both HI, for any of these measures. Participants in HIsp were most inclined to increase their previous ratings, followed by HIe, then HV. A chisquare test suggests these distributions were not independent of manipulation. Implications were discussed for therapy focused on personality change and testing for the Zoltan Gross approach. |
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