PSYCHOTHERAPY ENGAGERS VERSUS NON-ENGAGERS
PSYCHOTHERAPY ENGAGERS VERSUS NON-ENGAGERS
PSYCHOTHERAPY ENGAGERS VERSUS NON-ENGAGERS
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numbers of approval-reassurance did significantly differ across thirds (9% in the first<br />
third, 16% in the second third, 25% in the last third; see Table 2 in Chapter 2). Tryon<br />
(2003) found that approval-reassurance was used 7% of the time with non-engagers and<br />
2% of the time with engagers, but no differences were reported across thirds of sessions<br />
(these percentages were estimated based on the graph presented in Tryon, 2003).<br />
Research Question 2: Do proportions of therapist closed questions differ across time (1 st ,<br />
2 nd , and 3 rd thirds of intake sessions) and condition (engager versus non-engager)?<br />
Hill (1978) found that use of closed questions decreased significantly between<br />
first two thirds and the last third of intake sessions (15% for 1 st third, 14% for 2 nd third,<br />
and 9% for last third; p < .01; see Table 1). Tryon (2003) found that closed questions<br />
were used on average, 53 times with non-engagers and on average, 89.6 times with<br />
engagers, a very large effect (d = 2.86). The timing of closed questions was found to<br />
differ between engagers and non-engagers in Tryon (2003): closed questions increased at<br />
first then decreased for non-engagers (11, 26, then 16 for raw numbers of occurrences in<br />
the 1 st , 2 nd , and last thirds, respectively), and decreased for engagers (40, 30, then 20 in<br />
the 1 st , 2 nd , and last thirds, respectively), with p < .02.<br />
Research Question 3: Do proportions of therapist open questions about thoughts differ<br />
across time (1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd thirds of intake sessions) and condition (engager versus non-<br />
engager)?<br />
Currently there are no studies on whether the amount of open questions about<br />
thoughts differs across time or condition. Tryon (2003) did provide data about<br />
proportions of open questions (all subtypes) across condition – with non-engagers, open<br />
questions were used about 6% of the time in comparison with other helping skills used in<br />
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