Management of dependency in psychotherapy

ABSTRACT

The present study was conducted to investigate the management of dependency in psychotherapy in Pakistan. Twelve Male and twelve Female clients in the two categories of remainers and terminators, in equal numbers were included in the study. Content Analysis of first two recorded therapeutic sessions of each client was conducted. Highly significant level of Inter-Rater Reliability was obtained. Sign Test was used to find out the difference between the ratio of approach and avoidance interventions of the therapist. The result revealed that approach interventions used in the first two therapeutic sessions led to an increase in the frequency of the dependency bids of the client, and the client tended to be a remainer, while with avoidance interventions the frequency of dependency bids decreased and the client tended to be a terminator