How clients choose their psychotherapist: influences on selecting and staying with a therapist

This study considered how a client chooses a psychotherapist/psychologist working in private practice. This research emerged from a desire to enable clients to make more informed choices in relation to entering psychotherapy. It considered two research questions: How do clients choose their psychotherapist? What impact does the choice of therapist have over whether or not to stay in therapy? Ten male and female participants were interviewed in semi-structured interviews and transcripts were analysed using grounded theory. A three-stage model was developed, which emphasised the relational processes underlying the influences on client’s choice of therapist and decision to remain in therapy. At the initial stage of the process, prior to meeting a therapist, clients gathered information, formed expectations, and considered practical matters such as the therapist’s location and cost. At the stage of first meeting the therapist, clients took into account aspects of the therapy setting, the information provided by the therapist, as well as their own assessment of the quality of the relationship they experienced at this first meeting. Once clients had begun working with a psychotherapist, they appeared to continually balance the gains made against the cost and convenience of the therapy whilst also continuing to assess the quality of the relationship. This ultimately had an impact on whether or not they stayed in therapy. Findings highlighted the considerable lack of clarity for clients in locating reliable sources of information about therapy and how to make the best choice of therapist. Limitations of the research were discussed and some suggestions for areas of future research were suggested. Implications for therapeutic practice include the provision of more detailed information for clients prior to beginning therapy and also at first meeting in order to demystify therapy, to enable better informed consent, and to potentially reduce client dropout rates

Brecht's Tradition

Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address any single tradition as exclusively Brecht's. From these various literary traditions, Brecht borrowed formal elements only; compared with other writers to whom he is indebted, Brecht exceeds them in cynicism. They do not convey anything like his pitiless debunking attitude, his corrosive anti-romanticism, his hardheaded refusal to idealize or glorify, and his suspicion of all sentimentalities. This book discusses what the author identifies as the "Brechtian sensibility." Chroniclers of drama have not totally ignored the Brechtian tradition, but too often they are content to note merely that Brecht shared with some writers—particularly Büchner and Wedekind—a proclivity for open drama and episodes of racy realism tinged with poetic feeling. Other critics have not closely studied the various plays of this tradition in order to show how they constitute a distinctive and well-defined species of theater to which Brecht unmistakably belongs

California Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Guerra: The State of California Has Determined that Pregnancy may be Hazardous to your Job

In California Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Guerra, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the facial validity of California Government Code section 12945(b)(2). The court vehemently rejected a federal preemption argument and held that a law setting a minimum leave for pregnancy disabilities did not, on its face, discriminate against men or conflict with the purpose of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19644 as amended in 1978 by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The issue of whether the PDA allows any different treatment for pregnancy has divided the feminist community

California Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Guerra: The State of California Has Determined that Pregnancy may be Hazardous to your Job

In California Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Guerra, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the facial validity of California Government Code section 12945(b)(2). The court vehemently rejected a federal preemption argument and held that a law setting a minimum leave for pregnancy disabilities did not, on its face, discriminate against men or conflict with the purpose of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19644 as amended in 1978 by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The issue of whether the PDA allows any different treatment for pregnancy has divided the feminist community

Glass Ceiling Commission - The Impact of the Glass Ceiling and Structural Change on Minorities and Women

Glass Ceiling ReportGlassCeilingBackground12StructuralChange.pdf: 9391 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Grondslagen van partneralimentatie

Antokolskaia, M.V. [Promotor]Coenraad, L.M. [Promotor]Schulze, H.J. [Copromotor