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Mary McCallum
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 49
Citations - 2312
Mary McCallum is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Group psychotherapy & Complicated grief. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 49 publications receiving 2237 citations.
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Transference interpretations, therapeutic alliance, and outcome in short-term individual psychotherapy.
TL;DR: The evidence from this study was correlational and sufficiently strong to warrant alerting clinicians to the possibility of negative treatment effects when high levels of transference interpretations are used with certain types of patients receiving short-term individual psychotherapy.
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Quality of object relations versus interpersonal functioning as predictors of therapeutic alliance and psychotherapy outcome.
William E. Piper,Hassan F. A. Azim,Anthony S. Joyce,Mary McCallum,George W. H. Nixon,Perry S. Segal +5 more
TL;DR: Quality of object relations, which characterizes the patient's lifelong pattern of relationships, was the best predictor of therapeutic alliance and psychotherapy outcome.
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Prediction of dropping out in time-limited, interpretive individual psychotherapy.
William E. Piper,John S. Ogrodniczuk,Anthony S. Joyce,Mary McCallum,John S. Rosie,John G. O'Kelly,Paul Ian Steinberg +6 more
TL;DR: Predictors of dropping out were focus on transference, significantly investigated for patients who participated differentiated dropouts from completers, and none of the pretherapy predictors, which included demographic, diagnostic, and initial disturbance variables, significantly differentiated the two groups.
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Patient personality and time-limited group psychotherapy for complicated grief.
TL;DR: A randomized clinical trial to investigate the interaction of two patient personality characteristics with two forms of time-limited, short-term group therapy for 139 psychiatric outpatients with complicated grief found a significant interaction effect was found for QOR and high-QOR patients improved more in interpretive and supportive therapy.
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The alliance as mediator of expectancy effects in short-term individual therapy.
TL;DR: Evidence in support of the hypothesized mediation effect was found when the alliance was rated from the perspective of either patient or therapist, and it accounted for one third of the direct impact of expectancy on outcome.