Main research:
The topography of therapeutic interventions
The study of the interrelationships between the influence of specific therapeutic skills ("active technique") and the influence of therapeutic context variables ("non-specific factors") on treatment outcomes constitutes one of the core topics addressed by process research in psychotherapy. After a prominent trend in recent decades to focus on the study of "non-specific factors," which have been found to be leading predictors of treatment success, there is now a need to deepen research on the effectiveness of the use of various skills and the way in which patient personality variables, cultural characteristics, characteristics of distress, and other factors moderate the set of relationships between therapeutic skills and treatment outcomes.
The Institute's research team examines the impact of the therapist's skill mix at various stages of treatment on the success of the therapeutic session and the treatment as a whole, while examining the hypothesis that a balance between supportive and confrontational skills will contribute to the success of the treatment, especially in the core phase of treatment.
The research team is engaged in classifying therapeutic sessions using the Helping Skills System developed by Clara Hill – a system for classifying therapist skills in psychotherapy, which exclusively and comprehensively classifies each therapist skill into one of 12 categories. Currently, under the umbrella of this central project, there are several research projects in which we are engaged in the transcription, classification, and analysis of:
Sessions 3, 7, and 10 in the research database represent the first phase, intermediate phase, and final phase of treatment.
Complete treatments with successful and unsuccessful results (Good/Poor outcome)
Meetings 1
Meetings 12
Additional research areas
Therapist self-disclosure
Our research on therapist self-disclosure in therapy is based on the Institute's database and compares the effects of immediate and non-immediate therapist self-disclosure with the effect of therapist avoidance of self-disclosure, while taking into account patient variables.
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Therapist self-disclosure
Our research on therapist self-disclosure in therapy is based on the Institute's database and compares the effects of immediate and non-immediate therapist self-disclosure with the effect of therapist avoidance of self-disclosure, while taking into account patient variables.
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Factors affecting the relationship
Between symptomatic improvement
and the subjective experience of improvement in distress
Factors affecting the relationship
Between symptomatic improvement
and the subjective experience of improvement in distress