Examined opinions of normal subjects (N=120) and patients diagnosed as manic and schizophrenic (N=150) regarding Ellis's 11 irrational beliefs. Results showed that the schizophrenia and major depressive groups endorsed three and four irrational beliefs respectively with no endorsement from the normal and manic groups. (LLL)

Compared six Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) short forms with the full-length MMPI for ability to identify code-types and indices of psychopathology in renal dialysis patients (N=53) and paranoid schizophrenics (N=58). Results suggested that the accuracy of the short forms fluctuates for different patient populations and…

Evaluated essential hypertension patients (N=30) 15 months after treatment consisting of either relaxation training or blood pressure monitoring. Results showed significantly greater lowering of diastolic blood pressure for those receiving relaxation training both in clinic and during the working day. (LLL)

The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) was designed to serve as a reliable and quantifiable measure of alcohol dependence (M. Selzer, 1971). Since its introduction, the psychometric properties of the MAST have been studied extensively, but there are several questions that have not been addressed or only partially answered. The purpose of…

Data from records of 99 patients were used to classify cardiac patients as to whether they were likely or unlikely to experience a subsequent morbid event after admission to a hospital. Both a linear discriminant function and a logistic regression equation were developed using a set of nine predictor variables that were chosen on the basis of…

In investigating two samples of psychological reports, the results showed that the reports either provided new and significant information or provided information which confirmed information previously suspected but not well established. Also, 52 percent of the reports actually altered management in some direct ways. (Author/CG)

This study investigated the initial reactions of 20 A and 20 B Ss to encounter situations in which they were asked for help by four hypothetical patients communicating in normal, neurotic, schizophrenic, or ambiguous styles. The results were related to previous A and B findings. (Author)

In doubling, the double served both as an auxiliary ego for the patient and as a model from which the withdrawn patient learned effective group participation skills. Results of the study demonstrated significant increases in participation for subjects in both experimental groups using doubling. (Author)

The results from the present study indicate that in a sample of psychotherapy patients, cooperative and less cooperative research subjects are distinguishable on a number of characteristics including background and psychotherapy variables. These results caution against generalizations based merely on cooperative participants. (Author)

The present study aimed at delineating the major dimensions of psychotherapeutic interchange as they appear from three perspectives--patients', therapists', and observers'--and relating these to clinical and empirical assessments of the therapy's outcome. The present aim is to describe the major dimensions of the observer's perspective of the…

Scores of three rating scales indicated that a disparity exists between counselors' and patients' perceptions of the latter's therapeutic environment. (CK)

A schedule was developed for assessing the future outlook of hospitalized psychiatric patients and administered to samples of patients from two different hospitals. A factor analysis was done for each sample. (CK)