The Social History Questionnaire as Related to Length of Stay in Psychotherapy

A serious problem encountered in clinical practice concerns the large proportion of clients who begin therapy but for various reasons terminate treatment after only a few interviews and without the consent of the therapist. Representative studies by Kurland (1956), Haddock and Mensch (1957), and Rosenthal and Frank (1958) have emphasized the severity of this problem by indicating that most mental health clinics face the possibility of losing half of their therapy clients prematurely. This problem necessitates some objective means for identifying potential terminators and remainers prior to their entering therapy. Such a technique would permit a more efficient utilization of clinical services and a more economic delegation of time and costs for the client himself. A number of client variables have been found to consistently differentiate between terminators and remainers (Bergin and Garfield, 1971). These variables have been incorporated in the Social History Questionnaire (SHQ), a paper and pencil intake inventory (Best, 1971). The present study was designed to construct a Terminator-Remainer scale using those items of the SHQ that best differentiated between the Terminators and Remainers. Ss were 95 outpatients who had completed the SHQ. Ss were divided into two groups, Terminators and Remainers, according to their duration of stay in psychotherapy. The two groups were then compared in terms of their responses to the SHQ. Of 393 SHQ items, 23 were found to differentiate between the two groups. These 23 items were then combined into a subscale and norms for the entire sample were established

Izolacyjny system reintegracji społecznej dla sprawców przestępstw seksualnych w stosunku do nieletnich, w świetle przepisów obowiązującego prawa

The isolating system of social reintegration for perpetrators of sexual offenses on juvenile based on existing provisions of the law – Polish casus. The article is an attempt to show the possibilities of creating conditions that increase the sense of social security against the perpetrators of sexual offenses on juvenile who leave penitentiaries after serving a custodial sentence. As it is clear from the research conducted so far, none of the therapeutic and pharmacological methods can guarantee the changes in the offender’s mentality and, hence, their sexual motivations. Therefore, we should look for alternative methods of dealing with sexual offenders who return to life in society. There ought to be a coherent system of prevention combining the use of security measures, resulting from The Penal Code provisions, directing the offender to the ambulatory treatment in order to carry out pharmacological therapy and psychotherapy, and implementing the system of control based on electronic supervision. This form of supervision of sexual offenders would help to provide greater social security. The objective of this paper is attempt to show methods of dealing with offenders diagnosed with sexual dysfunctions who are about to leave penitentiaries. The introduction of certain solutions, based on existing law, can meet social expectations in this important area

Talking Abortion (Mis)information with ChatGPT on TikTok

In this study, we tested users' perception of accuracy and engagement with TikTok videos in which ChatGPT responded to prompts about "at-home" abortion remedies. The chatbot's responses, though somewhat vague and confusing, nonetheless recommended consulting with health professionals before attempting an "at-home" abortion. We used ChatGPT to create two TikTok video variants - one where users can see ChatGPT explicitly typing back a response, and one where the text response is presented without any notion to the chatbot. We randomly exposed 100 participants to each variant and found that the group of participants unaware of ChatGPT's text synthetization was more inclined to believe the responses were misinformation. Under the same impression, TikTok itself attached misinformation warning labels ("Get the facts about abortion") to all videos after we collected our initial results. We then decided to test the videos again with another set of 50 participants and found that the labels did not affect the perceptions of abortion misinformation except in the case where ChatGPT explicitly responded to a prompt for a lyrical output. We also found that more than 60% of the participants expressed negative or hesitant opinions about chatbots as sources of credible health information