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Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the research in personality and psychotherapy. There are many ways in which personality is discussed and analyzed in psychotherapy. These include studies on the effects of therapist personality on clients from different diagnostic groupings. The degree is of central interest to the psychotherapy researchers. Different measures and several types of measures reflect the size of changes, to that degree, that occurs as a result of therapy. Later, some personality dimensions are discussed in this chapter. Depression is a clear example of a disorder that is popularly characterized and diagnosed from a symptomatic perspective. It has been one of the more popular topics of treatment outcome research and is measured both in studies of depression and as a variable of interest in other studies of psychotherapy, such as marital distress. Anxiety is related to and often co-existing with depression. In recent years, anxiety has been the second most frequently measured symptom complex. The instrument most often used is the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. There are several dimensions that are assessed and can be identified as reflecting traditional personality functioning aspects that date back to the original client-centered research and social-learning theory. |
