Chipping Away at the Blank Screen: Therapist Self-Disclosure and the Real Relationship

The present study examined clients’ perceptions of their real relationships with their therapists, the appropriateness of the amount of their therapists’ self-disclosures, and their therapy outcomes. Ninety-four former clients completed measures of these variables. A positive correlation was found between the strength of their real relationships and their therapy outcomes. A positive correlation was also found between the relevance of the self-disclosures and their therapy outcomes. In addition, clients who felt that their therapists self disclosed an appropriate amount had stronger real relationships and better outcomes than clients who felt that their therapists did not disclose enough…

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Review of the Literature
Chapter 2: Statement of the Problem and Hypotheses
Chapter 3: Method
Chapter 4: Results
Chapter 5: Discussion
Appendixes
A. Demographic Questionnaire
B. Real Relationship Inventory –CL
C. Therapist Self-Disclosure Questionnaire
D. Counseling Outcome Measure
E. Table 5: Means and Standard Deviations of Variables of Interest
F. Table 6: Intercorrelations (with Demographic Variables)
G. Table 7: Summary of Simultaneous Regression Analyses
H. Table 8: Intercorrelations (with Overall Amount)
I. Table 9: Average Amounts of Therapist Self-Disclosures for Self-Disclosures that were Rated Not Enough, Just Right, and Too Much
References

Author: Ain, Stacie

Source: University of Maryland

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