Showing papers by "Everett L. Worthington published in 1985"
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TL;DR: The authors compared conservative and moderate Christians on preferences for counselors' treatment plans and found that self-labeled non-Christians preferred counselors' plans more often than conservative Christians' plans.
Abstract: This study replicated and extended a previous study that compared conservative and moderate Christians on preferences for Christian counselors’ treatment plans. Preferences of self-labeled non-Chri...
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TL;DR: For example, this article found that participants in the marital enrichment group increased their level of marital adjustment and improved their communication more than those in the assessment group, while maintaining their post-treatment level at a one-month follow-up.
Abstract: Participants volunteered for either an ACME-type marital enrichment discussion group or an assessment-only control group. Participants in the enrichment group increased their level of marital adjustment and improved their communication more than those in the assessment group. Both groups maintained their posttreatment level at a one-month follow-up. Marriage enrichment sessions were videotaped and coded. Facilitator statement-participant response pairs of utterances were analyzed using two coding systems, the Heckel Classification System (HCS) and the Hill Interaction Matrix (HIM). The hypothesis that therapists' statements and participants' responses would be significantly related across time was supported. On the HCS, participants tended to follow the focus, action, intent, and function of the previous facilitator statement. On the HIM, participants tended to follow both the style and content of therapists' statements. Across time, participants decreased the depth of their responses to therapis...
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TL;DR: This article found that participants in a short-term empathy skills training group underestimate the impact of situational determinants on behavior, especially when observing salient actors, and that the early stages of empathy training in structured groups may be characterized by losses in empathic orientation.
Abstract: Increases in empathy produced by participation in a short-term empathy skills training group were assessed by contrasting trained and untrained individuals' attributions about salient and nonsalient stimulus persons. Although previous evidence suggests that empathy limits the observer's tendency to over-attribute behavior to personal rather than situational causes, trained subjects underestimated the impact of situational determinants on behavior, especially when observing salient actors. These findings suggest that the early stages of empathy training in structured groups may be characterized by losses in empathic orientation, perhaps as a result of increases in listening skills.
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TL;DR: Four different strategies were used for reassigning a homework task of using self-statements to cope with pain produced by immersing one hand in ice water and were equally effective in eliciting compliance with the homework assignment.
Abstract: 40 women were taught to use self-statements to cope with pain caused by ice water. The trainer used four different strategies for reassigning a homework task of using self-statements to cope with pain produced by immersing one hand in ice water. The strategies were equally effective in eliciting compliance with the homework assignment.
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