Study results indicate that the principles of individual psychology can be applied effectively in a group counseling process involving socially maladjusted students. A better acceptance of authority was evident, verbal aggression toward teachers subsided, praise and reward became important, and grades became a method to please teachers as well as…

Both Negro and white children depict Santa Claus as a Caucasian, although they use different colors in their drawings. This difference in the use of colors could reflect a Negro preoccupation with race or could merely be the result of different environmental influences. (CK)

The differential effects of a Gestalt counseling operation and empathic reflections of feeling on client depth of experiencing, change in awareness, and goal analogue. Results showed that depth of experiencing and change in awareness were significantly higher for the subjects following the Gestalt operation. (Author)

Examined whether population type and question type differentially affected validity of alcoholics' self-reports. Alcoholics gave highly valid self-reports. Question type differentially affected the validity of subjects' interview answers, as fewer invalid answers were given to demographic questions. Population type did not significantly affect…

Builds theory and research propositions by presenting moral stage and family development frameworks as tools for exploring the individual-psychological facet of family dynamics; exploring the interface of the frameworks; and reviewing and proposing research utilizing concepts from both models. (Author/BEF)

Addresses the need to approach understanding the individual patient's psychopathology from the vantage point of psychoanalytic object relations theory and family systems theory. The complementarity of these approaches is emphasized. The process of internalization and projection are bridging concepts. Marital relationships provide a unique research…

Comparison of 79 normally hearing and 42 hearing-impaired adolescents found no differences regarding the intensity of their remembered positive experiences. Hearing-impaired subjects reported more positive interpersonal experiences, rarely experienced positive experiences "with self," and showed less desire for transpersonal commitment,…

Investigated the relationship between personality priorities (pleasing, achieving, outdoing, detaching, avoiding) and selected psychological and attitudinal variables theoretically linked to those priorities. Undergraduates (N=262) completed four personality measures, which resulted in significant differences. Findings lend support for the use of…

Three studies explore similarities between attachment style typologies and sex role typologies. Both are defined by pairs of dimensions: self model and other model (attachment styles); masculinity, or agency, and femininity, or communion (sex role orientations). Discusses results. (KW)

"Work" and "resistance" responses to interpretation in short-term individual (STI) psychotherapy were examined using a hierarchical linear modeling procedure. Relationships between interpretation characteristics and patient responses within therapy were considered. Process data were drawn from 60 STI therapy cases, 30 patients…

Employing E. Erikson's identity theory within J. Marcia's operational framework, the association between identity formation and adult achievement was examined in a subset of gifted individuals from Terman's longitudinal study. Significant relationships were found between identity formation and occupational success. Most successful individuals were…

Considered the influence of family upon the individual and how family therapy affected behavior resulting from family interaction. (RK)

Research supported in part by Grant MH-11989 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and in part by a grant-in-aid from the Society of the Sigma Xi.

Whereas Gestalt Therapy purports to apply the principles of Gestalt psychology to psychotherapeutic situations, its emphasis upon the here-and-now and upon sensations as distinct from meanings is directly contrary to the spirit and assumptions of Gestalt theory as developed by Max Wertheimer and others. When Gestalt therapy does succeed, it is by…