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Neurotic Disorders/psychology , Problem Solving , Psychotherapy , Adolescent , Adult , Anxiety/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychological TestsABSTRACT
Demonstrated that through brief demythologizing, college students' (N = 32) attitudes toward mental illness could be changed significantly in a non-medical model or psychosocial direction and that this attitude change apparently induced students to report a significantly reduced fear of contracting mental illness. Pretest-follow-up data comparisons confirmed the validity of these findings.
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Attitude to Health , Mental Disorders/psychology , Persuasive Communication , Adult , Concept Formation , Fear , Female , Humans , In Vitro Techniques , Male , Phobic Disorders/psychology , StudentsSubject(s)
Attitude to Health , Education , Health Occupations , Mental Disorders , Adult , Female , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
To initially establish the validity and utility of a simplified use of the Semantic Differential to measure psychotherapy outcome, 14 clients were administered, before and after 15 sessions of individual psychotherapy, the Semantic Differential and a symptom checklist. As predicted, results indicated that change of clients' self-constructs in a positive direction was associated with symptom reduction. Implications for psychotherapy research are discussed.
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Neurotic Disorders/therapy , Psychotherapy , Semantic Differential , Adult , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Neurotic Disorders/psychology , Pilot Projects , Psychometrics , Psychotherapy/standards , Remission, Spontaneous , Self ConceptABSTRACT
In an attempt to change attitudes toward mental illness, as well as to increase positive self-attributions, 37 community residents were presented a series of "demythologizing" seminars. As predicted, the data indicated that seminar participants significantly changed their attitudes in the direction of an antimedical model position, and these attitudes remained stable on a 3-month posttest. After the seminars, participants also changed remained stable on follow-up. Implications of these results for clinical and community psychology were discussed.
