Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: Discovering the Effective Components of Change
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2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 1 SPR Society for Psychotherapy Research Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: Discovering the Effective Components of Change Proceedings of the 2007 Australia Psychotherapy Research Group Meeting 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 2 Citation: Grenyer, B.F.S., King, R., Crowe, T., Deane, F. (Eds) (2007) Evidence- Based Psychotherapy: Proceedings of the 2007 Australia Psychotherapy Research Group Meeting. Wollongong: Illawarra Institute for Mental Health, University of Wollongong. ©2007 ISBN 978-1-74128-144-6 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 3 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research Thursday 6th - Friday 7th December Program and Abstracts Thursday 6th December 10am Registration opens 11am Welcome - Conference organizers [Howard Room] Keynote address : Professor Mike Startup, School of Psychology University of Newcastle, "Therapist treatment adherence to, and client drop-out from, cognitive behaviour therapy for acute psychosis" 12.00 Lunch and Poster Session Posters will be previewed by a 2 minute oral summary by each presenter commencing 12.30 Posters Alicia M. Moxon, Kevin R. Ronan Massey University, Central Queensland University, "Providing Information to Relatives and Patients about Expressed Emotion and Schizophrenia in a Community Support Setting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial" Louise Hanson and Robert Schweitzer, Queensland University of Technology, "Understanding Generalized Anxiety from a Psychodynamic Perspective: The Relationship between Attachment Style, Interpersonal Relationships, and Defense Style in the Outcome of Supportive Expressive Group Therapy". Dianne Lees, Kevin R. Ronan, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Tauranga (NZ), Central Queensland University, "Engagement and Effectiveness of Parent Management Training for Solo High Risk Mothers: A Multiple Baseline Evaluation" Andreas Comninos & Brin Grenyer, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong. Illawarra Institute of Mental Health, "Optimising Treatment Response for Depressive Disorders: A Clinical Model" Nicola M. Curtis, Kevin R. Ronan, Naamith Heiblum, Kylie Crelin, Massey University, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences Central Queensland University, MST Services, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences Central Queensland University, "Initial Dissemination and Effectiveness of Multisystemetic Treatment in New Zealand: A Benchmarking Study" Peter J. Kelly, Frank P. Deane, Illawarra Institute for Mental Health University of Wollongong, "Does therapeutic homework improve outcomes for individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness?" Geoff Lyons, Nadia Crittenden, School of Psychology University of Wollongong. "Examining depressive symptoms, motivational changes and the role of mindfulness in exercise." Robyn D. Girling-Butcher, Kevin R. Ronan, Massey University Central Queensland University, "Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Children with Anxiety Disorders: Evaluation of a Brief Program Reflecting Usual Practice Duration" Kylie Crellin, Kevin R. Ronan, Kirsten McMurray, Central Queensland University, Central Queensland University, Massey University, "Meta-Analysis of Childhood Anxiety Treatments: Methodological Advancements in an Evaluation of Overall Effectiveness" Margaret Carley1, Leigh McCullough2, 1Private Practice Cambridge USA, 2Harvard Medial School, "Validation of Affect and Defence Rating Scales" 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 4 1.00 Paper sessions [Howard Room] James Loughead1, Lester Luborsky2, Carol Popp2, Ramaris German2, Daniel Kirk2, Beth Krause3, Ruben Gur1 , 1Brain Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; 2Center for Psychotherapy Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; 3Department of Psychology, Social and Health Sciences, Duke University, "Brain Activation During Relationship Narratives: A Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Approach" Lisa M. Parker and Brin F. S. Grenyer, University of Wollongong School of Psychology, "Measurement of Relationship Patterns in long-term Psychotherapy using the Core Conflictual Theme – Leizig/Ulm method" Judy Hyde, Macquarie University/University of Sydney, "Fragile narcissists or the guilty good: What drives the personality of the psychotherapist?" Jeff Ward and Tegan Cruwys, School of Psychology, Australian National University, "Imagining Otherwise: Empathy in everyday life and psychotherapy" Robert Schweitzer, Banham, J., Birtles, B., and Vromans, L., Bambling, M., Queensland University of Technology. "For Better or Worse: Treatment Trajectories and Outcomes in a Training Psychology Clinic" [Grawe Room] Margot Schofield and Jan Grant, La Trobe University and Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia & Curtin University, "Supervisor and supervisee perspectives on supervision: methodologies to illuminate the learning experience" Shannon Lightfoot, University of New England, Armidale, "A client’s experience of ‘unsafety in the presence of another’: A relational dilemma in psychotherapy" Maria Quinn, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, "Therapist’s experience of the treatment of non epileptic seizures. Preliminary findings of a qualitative study" Deborah Sauvage, Griffith University School of Human Services, "Could Email-Facilitated Qualitative Methodology Ever Be Safe Enough When Researching Harm from the Psychotherapeutic relationship?" Denise Charman, Victoria University, "Being an Effective Psychotherapist: A Selected Review of Empirical Findings" 3.30pm Afternoon tea 4.00 Special Presentation [Howard Room] Godfrey T Barrett-Lennard, Honorary Fellow in Psychology, Murdoch University, WA, "Psychotherapy as the healing of relationship: Theory, practice and inquiry in focus" 4.30 Workshop sessions [Howard Room] Sherwood Waldron, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute "Evaluating benefits from long-term dynamic treatment" [Grawe Room] Sally Brooks1,2, Judy Leung1, 1Gestalt Practitioners Training Sydney & 2Macquarie University, "A Lived Research Methodology – Phenomenological, Heuristic Enquiry" 6pm Evening Drinks at Wollongong Beach (Five Islands Brewery) 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 5 Friday 7th December 9am Paper sessions [Howard Room] Carla J. Walton, Nick R. Bendit, Stella C. Dyer, Leslie R. Pollock, Christopher H. Willcox & Jessica M. Podkowka, Centre for Psychotherapy, Hunter New England Mental Health Service and Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, "Comparing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and the Conversational Model in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A pilot study" Andreas Comninos & Brin Grenyer, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong. Illawarra Institute of Mental Health, "A rapid response to psychotherapy for depression: A qualitative and quantitative analysis of therapy process" Juanita Kolaric and Jeff Ward, Australian National University, "The development of a procedure for using the reflective functioning scales to code psychotherapy sessions". [Grawe Room] Denise Charman, Victoria University, "Psychotherapy Research and the Social Model of Health: A Perspective on Evidence Based Practice" Rhonda Gibson Long & Trevor Crowe, Sydney Gestalt Institute & Illawarra Institute for Mental Health, "An exploration of ‘real relationship’ in Gestalt Therapy dreamwork" Sally Brooks1 and Linsey Howie2, 1Neridah Practice, Chatswood, Clinical Member Gestalt Practitioners Training Sydney, Faculty Member Gestalt Australia and New Zealand, and Macquarie University, 2La Trobe University, School of Occupational Therapy, "Therapist- as-Researcher: Applying Phenomenological, heuristic enquiry to investigate the Gestalt therapeutic relationship" 10.30 Morning tea 11am Introduction to keynote : conference organizers [Howard Room] Keynote address : Professor Jacques Barber "The impact of the therapist, the client, the therapeutic alliance and techniques on outcome" 12.00 Lunch and SPR Australia Area Group Business Meeting. Presentation of Student Travel Scholarships and Best Conference Presentation Award [Howard Room] 1.30 Workshop sessions [Howard Room] Margaret Carley, Private Practice Cambridge USA, "Measuring emotion in psychotherapy process research" [Grawe Room] Margot Schofield, Andrew Bickerdike, Dubravko Jurkovic, Iva Jurkovic, Department of Counselling and Psychological Health La Trobe University, Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, Relationships Australia, "Evaluation of Couple Counselling: Issues and Challenges" 3pm Afternoon tea 3.30 Workshop sessions [Howard Room] Caroline Henderson-Brooks, David Butt, Alison Moore, Macquarie University, "Exploring language as evidence of change" [Grawe Room] Janine Brophy-Dixon, La Trobe University Bundoora Melbourne, "Creating links when threads are broken: connecting and communicating through postcard art" 5pm Close 2007 Australia Regional Group Meeting: Society for Psychotherapy Research 6 Abstracts Abstracts are alphabetical A-Z by first author surname. Index of first authors: Barber - Barrett-Lennard - Brooks - Brophy-Dixon - Carley - Charman - Comninos - Crellin - Curtis - Girling-Butcher - Hanson - Henderson-Brooks - Hyde - Jurkovic - Kelly - Kolaric - Lees - Lightfoot - Long - Loughead - Lyons - Moxon - Parker - Quinn - Sauvage - Schofield - Schweitzer - Startup - Waldron - Walton - Ward Barber Title: The impact