OBJECTIVE To identify demographic and clinical correlates associated with therapists' countertransference feelings on the first visit of women victims of sexual violence. METHOD Forty patients were seen by 26 therapists, during 2 consecutive years, at the Center for the Study and Treatment of Psychological Trauma, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre , Brazil. After the first visit with the p...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this descriptive study were to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of physical therapists regarding research, the intention to engage in research and the barriers to participating in research amongst physical therapists in the State of Kuwait. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A previously validated questionnaire was distributed to 200 non-randomly selected physical ther...

This study examined sources of therapist effects in a sample of 25 therapists who saw 1,141 clients at a university counseling center. Clients completed the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) at each session. Therapists' facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) were assessed with a performance task that measures therapists' interpersonal skills by rating therapist responses to video simulations of...

OBJECTIVE This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists) working with patients who have had strokes in order to characterize their clinical questions, defined as their formalized information needs arising in the context of everyday clinical practice. METHODS The researchers took a construc...

Occupational therapists play a significant role in the discharge process and are often exposed to ethically challenging decision-making. This paper examines the moral basis of discharge planning, relating it to the four fundamental bio-ethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. Using a case study design, data was collected from 10 occupational therapis...

This cross-sectional study looked at the relationship between mental health therapists’ perception of treatments’ impact and actual change. Twenty-three licensed mental health therapists, providing ‘‘treatment-as-usual’’ to foster children, rated their impact on children’s complaints of depression, anxiety, behavior problems, and self-esteem after 6 months of treatment. Actual change was measur...

Alliance and adherence to therapeutic techniques are key elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Therapists’ beliefs about how important alliance technique throughout CBT might impact they deliver therapy. Furthermore, these or not be congruent with patients’ therapy-related beliefs. This research investigated whether therapists hold similar patients regarding the importance could accu...

The traditional institutional based medical model approach to rehabilitation is expensive, often inappropriate, inefficient and does not meet the needs of most people with disabilities. The escalating cost of health care, the increasing economic constraints, and the shortfalls in service provision have all contributed to the urgent need to develop innovative ways to utilise therapists in the co...