Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Keser E. (Yürütücü)
Yükseköğretim Kurumları Destekli Proje, BAP Araştırma Projesi, 2023 - 2024
To date, ma ny standardized intervention programs have been developed to reduce the symptoms of prolonged grief such as Complicated Grief Treatment (Shear & Bloom, 2017), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (Boelen et al., 2007), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Shear et al., 2014), Meaning Reconstruction Therapy (Neimeyer, 2016), Writing Therapy (Matthews, 2019), Family-based Therapy (Groot et al., 2010), Group Psychotherapies (Piper et al., 2009), and Internet- Based Therapies (Eisma et al., 2015). Testing the efficacy of standardized approaches is considered a 1980s tradition (Safran & Muran, 2000). When the psychotherapy research conducted in the last 20 years is reviewed, it is seen that the therapeutic relationship, in-session silences, rupture-repair cycles, psychological characteristics of the therapist (e.g., attachment), patient-therapist pairings, transference-countertransference reactions, and non-verbal exchange between the clients and the therapists have become prominent (Tschacher et al., 2012). Therefore, today's theoretical and practical knowledge shows us that examining verbal and non-verbal interactions between therapists and clients, focusing on the 5 relationship of this interaction within the healing process, and studying the cycles within the sessions are more crucial research topics. From this point of view, the present study will examine the experiences, emotions, and difficulties of psychotherapists within the assessment sessions with bereaved people. Furthermore, psychotherapists' attempts to soothe and console the patient, their level of permissiveness to silence, and what indicators they use when distinguishing Abstract normal grief from prolonged grief will be investigated. Lastly, the relationships between therapists' psychological features (e.g., separation anxiety, narcissism level, capacity to tolerate distress, avoidance level) and within-session factors (e.g., not allowing grief topics, changing the subject, giving advice, comforting, feeling helpless, angry, allowing to silence) will be examined. One hundred psychotherapists will constitute the sa mple of the study. The therapists will be divided into 2 groups by random assignment method. One group (experimental group) will be presented with a patient who has a loss experience and grief symptoms, while the other group (control group) will be presented with the same person and the same story without the loss-grief component. Therapists will be asked to conduct a 45-minute first interview session, using their regular psychotherapy approach and interview styles, with a patient who will be referred to them. After this interview, a member of the research team will interview the therapist and ask questions about the session and the therapist's feelings and thoughts. The patient story to be presented in the sessions will be compiled from rea I cases and will be played by theater actors to be trained. The Adult separation Anxiety I nventory, the Distress Tolerance Scale, the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Cluestionnaire will be administered to all therapists. In addition, all therapists wil I be interviewed about the sessions they have conducted. In this interview, various questions will be asked of the therapists about the emotions they felt during the session, the difficulties they experienced, and the theoretical formulation of the patient's problems.