Convention, Tradition, and the New Wave: Assessing Clinician Identity Within Behavior Therapy

Date of Award

Spring 6-10-2005

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Ragnar Storaasli

Second Advisor

Kelly Wilson

Third Advisor

Chad Emrick

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

All Rights Reserved
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Keywords

Behavioristic psychology, Survey

Abstract

In the first wave, behaviorists questioned the conventional wisdom that inner experience was relevant to understanding human behavior. In the 1970s, cognitive-behavioral theories emphasized the importance of the cognitive element, not just the environment, in explaining and modifying behavior. The third wave is drawn from advances in basic and applied behavior analysis of language, Eastern mystical traditions, and less empirically oriented therapeutic approaches. Examples include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (IBCT). This study reports a survey of clinicians and non-clinicians who self-identify with second or third wave approaches, and a group of undergraduate psychology students intended to represent a layperson or folk psychological approach. Their preferences, in the context of 10 clinical vignettes, among 5 different therapeutic responses or interventions that included "ACT-like," "cognitive," and commonsense or "neutral" options were measured. Third wave-oriented respondents exhibited more consistency than others in their preference for interventions that match their self-identified theoretical orientation, however the author suggests that construction of the vignettes may have influenced this result.

Copyright Date

4-25-2005

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

Rights Holder

Brooke Kraushaar

Provenance

Received from Author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

25 pgs

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