Psychotherapists' interventions and their effect on the patients' remaining in or terminating psychotherapy

The present study is aimed at exploring the effect of approach and avoidance interventions of the therapist on [a] the patients, remaining in or [b] terminating psychotherapy. Seven therapists of the Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi, participated in this study. 56 audio-cassettes of 28 patients [first two tape recorded therapy sessions of two remainers and two terminators of each therapist] were subjected to content analysis. Inter-scorer reliability between the author and the other scorer yielded satisfactory results. Mann-Whitney U test was applied to find out statistical difference between the remainers and terminators. It was found that with approach interventions of the therapists to hostility with hostility anxiet expressions, the patients tended to remain longer in psychotherapy, whereas with avoidance interventions of the tharapists to such expressions, the patients tended to terminate psychotherapy

Relationship between high emotional intelligence and greater self-esteem

The existence of high E 1 to greater self-esteem was compared. It was hypothesized that higher El would lead to greater self-esteem among adolescents. Two questionnaires tapping both the variables were administered to a sample of 314 adolescents comprising of 157 males and 157 females. In order to find out the relationship between the two variables Pearson r was applied. The results showed that there is a moderate relationship between the two variables [r=0.5]