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E Rosenheim

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PubMed1986

Patients' reactions to humorous interventions in psychotherapy.

This study explores the preference of patients for humorous or nonhumorous therapist interventions. Hysterical, obsessive, and depressive patients were presented with three functional kinds of humorous interventions: emotional confrontation, anxiety reduction and perspective development. The data indicate that the patients consistently favored the nonhumorous interventions, but the degree of this preference varied according to personality style. Obsessive patients stood out in their ardent repudiation of humorous interventions. The results suggest that the desirability of utilizing humor in therapy depends on a multiplicity of parameters.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

Informing children about a parent's terminal illness.

It has been suggested that supplying children with explicit information about the terminal illness of a parent is likely to enhance their coping with anxiety. To examine this claim, the anxiety level of 18 children who were informed by their parents was compared with that of 26 children who were not thus informed. The anxiety of the informed group was significantly lower. The results also show meaningful differences between developmental levels among the non-informed only. Possible explanations and implications of the results are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Empathy and attitudes among medical students: the effects of group experience.

This study compares the level of empathy of medical students with the levels of empathy among other university students. It also explores the impact of the psychiatric clerkship with group experience on the medical students' empathy for and attitudes toward mental patients as compared with the level of attitudes and empathy of medical students without group experience. The results indicated that psychiatric teaching can change and enhance empathy and increase positive attitudes toward mental illness among medical students. These results were dependent upon the students' participation in a self-exploratory group experience. An additional goal of the study was to test the impact of medical students' psychiatric clerkships on the relationship between the level of self-reported empathy and the level of empathy as judged by their peer group. It was found that these separate vantage points merged as a consequence of group participation.

Attitude↗
PubMed1977

Defensive passivity in adolescence.

There are potentially healthy adolescents who display excessive reluctance to move toward independent decision and action. This paper presents a clinical description of this "syndrome", conceptualizes it as a defensive maneuver against mourning and offers steps for therapeutic intervention.

Adolescent↗