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Interpersonal Patterns (interpersonal + pattern)
Selected AbstractsInterpersonal profiles in major depressive disorderJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2007Marna S. Barrett Although patients with mood disorders report interpersonal difficulties in addition to depression or anxiety, few studies have examined interpersonal patterns in those patients. Here the authors' goals were to (a) identify the interpersonal pattern in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), (b) determine interpersonal differences between subgroups of MDD patients, and (c) examine the interpersonal patterns of comorbid MDD patients. One- hundred forty-one MDD adults participated in an ongoing randomized clinical trial of treatments for depression. Interpersonal profiles revealed that MDD patients were significantly more distressed by interpersonal problems than normative samples. Furthermore, MDD patients with depressive personality disorder reported more interpersonal distress than MDD-only patients report and were more likely to have interpersonal problems related to dominance and control than submissiveness. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 63: 247,266, 2007. [source] Metacognitive interpersonal therapy in a case of obsessive,compulsive and avoidant personality disordersJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2008Donatella Fiore Abstract Metacognitive interpersonal therapy (MIT) for personality disorders is aimed at both improving metacognition,the ability to understand mental states,and modulating problematic interpersonal representations while building new and adaptive ones. Attention to the therapeutic relationship is basic in MIT. Clinicians recognize any dysfunctional relationships with patients and work to achieve attunement to make the latter aware of their problematic interpersonal patterns. The authors illustrate here the case of a man suffering from obsessive,compulsive and avoidant personality disorders with dependent traits. He underwent combined individual and group therapies to (a) modulate his perfectionism, (b) prevent shifts towards avoiding responsibilities to protect himself from feared negative judgments, and (c) help him acknowledge suppressed desires. We show how treatment focused on the various dysfunctional personality aspects. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 64: 1,13, 2008. [source] Interpersonal profiles in major depressive disorderJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2007Marna S. Barrett Although patients with mood disorders report interpersonal difficulties in addition to depression or anxiety, few studies have examined interpersonal patterns in those patients. Here the authors' goals were to (a) identify the interpersonal pattern in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), (b) determine interpersonal differences between subgroups of MDD patients, and (c) examine the interpersonal patterns of comorbid MDD patients. One- hundred forty-one MDD adults participated in an ongoing randomized clinical trial of treatments for depression. Interpersonal profiles revealed that MDD patients were significantly more distressed by interpersonal problems than normative samples. Furthermore, MDD patients with depressive personality disorder reported more interpersonal distress than MDD-only patients report and were more likely to have interpersonal problems related to dominance and control than submissiveness. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 63: 247,266, 2007. [source] Mutual but unequal: Mentoring as a hybrid of familiar relationship rolesNEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, Issue 126 2010Thomas E. Keller This chapter employs a conceptual framework based on the relationship constructs of power and permanence to distinguish the special hybrid nature of mentoring relationships relative to prototypical vertical and horizontal relationships common in the lives of mentor and mentee. The authors note that mentoring occurs in voluntary relationships among partners with unequal social experience and influence. Consequently, mentoring relationships contain expectations of unequal contributions and responsibilities (as in vertical relationships), but sustaining the relationships depends on mutual feelings of satisfaction and commitment (as in horizontal relationships). Keller and Pryce apply this framework to reveal the consistency of findings across several qualitative studies reporting particular interpersonal patterns in youth mentoring relationships. On a practical level, they suggest that the mentor needs to balance the fun, interest, and engagement that maintain the relationship with the experienced guidance, structure, and support that promote the growth and well-being of the mentee. [source] State of mind organization in personality disorders.CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORY & PRACTICE), Issue 5 2005Typical states, the triggering of inter-state shifts It is possible to portray patients suffering from personality disorders using Horowitz's States of Mind Theory, according to which each disorder features its own particular set of forms of subjective experience (states of mind) and the shifting from one state to another is done under compulsion. If we want to define personality disorders correctly we need to define the rules causing inter-state shifts and, as a result, creating personality organization. The prime candidates to acting as these rules constraining the shifts are interpersonal patterns and shortfalls in the ability to metarepresent internal experience and others' psychological worlds. We shall illustrate these hypotheses with some session transcript extracts involving patients suffering from personality disorders. In the transcripts we have pinpointed the initial state of mind, the cause of the shift and the state of mind the patient has moved into. The discussion of the theory that personality disorders are organizations of states of mind in which the inter-state shifts are constrained will be on the basis of some clinical examples.,Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||