William B Stiles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 203218 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William B Stiles |
| NOMBRES | William B |
| APELLIDO | Stiles |
| FIRMA | STILES W B |
| AFILIACIONES | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7740-0609 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Statistical Relations Among the Core ‐10, PHQ ‐9 and GAD ‐7 in an English Urban Community Counselling and Psychotherapy Clinic
Have I Been Here Before? The Script System in Clinical Supervision
This paper is a theoretical research-based reflection on the process of clinical supervision. It presents two case study projects focusing on the occurrence and use of the script system and the process of change and assimilation of the problematic script material during supervision. One of the cases is an experienced therapist, “Sarah,” and the other is a novice, “Adam,” both of whom were supervised by an experienced TA supervisor. The authors of…
Assimilation in bereavement
This theory-building case study examined an application of the Assimilation of Grief Experiences Scale (AGES), a conceptual account of a bereaved person’s process of change in grief recovery, in a case study of a 40-year old woman in bereavement counselling. An assessment session and 44 counselling sessions were analysed intensively, comparing the description provided by the AGES with the details of the case. Results showed how the AGES tracked a…
Theory-Building Case Study Examining Empathic Transactions in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
This theory-building case study examined the relational transactional analysis concept of empathic transactions (ETs) developed by Hargaden and Sills. The researchers analyzed the transactions between a 28-year-old woman and her therapist during their 26-session therapy. Client progress was assessed using the Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Sequence (APES) as well as standard symptom intensity inventories. Results were largely consistent …
Retrocessos no contexto de terapia linguística de avaliação
O modelo de assimilação é um modelo integrativo que pode ser aplicado a qualquer tipo de setting terapêutico para a descrição do processo de mudança. A Escala de Assimilação de Experiências Problemáticas (EAEP) descreve o processo de assimilação de experiências problemáticas em terapia. Ainda que a EAEP apresente uma sequência ordenada, estudos demonstram que o processo de assimilação não é contínuo; contrariamente, o processo parece seguir um pa…
Numbers in assimilation research
We describe the assimilation model, a developmental theory of psychological change that focuses on interpretive study of people’s experience in therapy. Assimilation research relies on methods that are simultaneously interpretive and quantitative, and uses them in mutually complementary ways. We explain how quantitative techniques have been useful in research on the model. We give examples of numeric techniques and their uses in specific studies …
Immigrants' Continuing Bonds with their Native Culture
Three case studies of immigrants to the US from China, Iraq, and Mexico were used to build a theory of acculturation in immigrants by integrating the continuing bonds model, which describes mourning in bereavement with the assimilation model, which describes psychological change in psychotherapy. Participants were interviewed about the loss of their native culture and their life in the US. One participant had not fully assimilated the loss of her…
Changes in undergraduate student alcohol consumption as they progress through university
The current findings suggest that student alcohol consumption declines over their undergraduate studies; however weekly levels of consumption at Year 3 remain high for a substantial number of students. The persistence of high levels of consumption in a large population of students suggests the need for effective preventative and treatment interventions for all year groups
Verbal Exchange Structure of General Practice Consultations with Patients Presenting Psychological Problems
The consultations of 88 patients presenting with psychological problems to primary care medical practitioners were tape- recorded, coded, and factor- analyzed to identify their constituent verbal exchanges. A verbal exchange is a set of speech act categories that tend to occur together and are used for some subtask within an encounter. The verbal exchange structure of these consultations replicated that of previously studied medical consultations…
Signs and voices
This commentary joins a conversation between Ryle and Leiman, which represents a larger conversation among theories of psychotherapy, semiotics and linguistics. The emerging collaborative understanding involves viewing people not as separate, unitary individuals but as mosaics or communities of different voices. The voices share their experiences by sign‐mediated communication and engage in joint action. Projective identification may be considere…
Consensual Qualitative Research
Attractiveness and Disclosure in Initial Encounters of Mixed-Sex Dyads
Physically attractive people describe their daily interactions as more disclosing, intimate and satisfying than do unattractive people. We investigated the disclosing aspect of this description during naturally occurring encounters. Six-minute interactions of 38 previously unacquainted mixed-sex dyads were videotaped using Ickes's dyadic interaction paradigm. Physical attractiveness was rated reliably and videotape transcripts were coded accordin…
Therapist contributions to psychotherapeutic assimilation
A psychotherapist's verbal interventions may be understood as promoting a client's eventual improvement by facilitating developmental change processes within the client. This approach is an alternative to the traditional search for statistical links between aggregates of therapist interventions and global outcome measures. Our approach employs models of clients' assimilation of problematic experiences within problem domains and therapists' implem…
Quality control in qualitative research
Physician Frustration in Communicating with Patients
In this study, the nature of practicing physicians' "frustrating" visits was explored and a guide to help physicians identify problems in communicating with patients was developed. The study included 1,076 practicing physicians who attended a voluntary workshop on physician-patient communication. The physicians were from multiple specialties and diverse work settings geographically dispersed throughout the United States. The method included devel…
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
Disclosure and anxiety
According to the fever model of Disclosure, the relationship of Disclosure (utterances that reveal subjective information) to psychological distress is analogous to the relationship of fever to physical infection: Both are indicators of some underlying disturbance and part of a restorative process. High and moderate trait anxious university students (but not the low trait anxious students) used higher percentages of Disclosure when speaking about…
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
The verbal exchange theory of medical interviews (consultations) proposes that patients and clinicians employ a joint repertoire of exchanges to accomplish their goals in the encounter. The skeleton of each exchange is a set of speech acts that tend to be used together in interviews, for example, (a) clinician questions and patient yes/no answers, or (b) clinician directives and patient agreements to comply. We describe seven principal exchanges,…
Evaluating Medical Interview Process Components
A standard criterion for judging the value of a medical interview process component, such as physician information giving, is the degree to which it correlates with positive outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, compliance, or symptom relief. There is a serious problem, however, with this use of correlations. Physicians and patients, like any human beings, give and respond to signals as to what each requires in the interaction. Any such appropr…
Interactions of depressed college students with their roommates
Coyne's (1976b) interactional theory of the social environment's role in maintaining depression suggests that depressed people create negative affect in others. This leads to a pattern of interactions between depressed individuals and others that is aversive to both parties and becomes a vicious circle. We examined interactions of 15 depressed and 15 nondepressed college students with their roommates. On questionnaires, roommates did indicate mor…
Verbal Processes in a Labour/Management Negotiation
The transcript of a labour/management negotiation was analysed using Stiles's verbal response modes (VRM) taxonomy to assess the value of general-purpose discourse analysis in studying negotiation processes. Temporal trends and labour/management differences in response mode use indicated that VRM coding successfully quantified important aspects of the negotiation. Comparisons were made between the results of VRM analysis and those of more special…
A multilevel comparison of child abusers with nonabusers
"Are all psychotherapies equivalent?"
"Are all psychotherapies equivalent?"
Despite clear demonstrations by process researchers of systematic differences in therapists' techniques, most reviews of psychotherapy outcome research show little or no differential effectiveness of different psychotherapies. This contradiction presents dilemma to researchers and practitioners. Numerous possible solutions have been suggested. Some of these challenge the apparent equivalence of outcome, arguing that differential results could be …
Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981)
Nancy L. Miller, William B. Stiles, Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981), Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 72-81
Verbal response modes and dimensions of interpersonal roles
Utterances in dyadic communication can be described as concerning the speaker's or the other's experience, using the speaker's or the other's frame of reference, and being focused on the speaker or the other (where focus means presuming or not presuming knowledge of the other). Each mode has a distinctive grammatical form as well as a distinctive interpersonal intent, so the form and the intent of an utterance can be coded separately. The modes c…
Relative status and interpersonal presumptuousness
Classification of intersubjective illocutionary acts
An illocutionary act presupposes not only a speaker, but also an other who is the intended recipient of the utterance's illocutionary force. Thus every illocutionary act has an intersubjective component; it connects two centers of experience in a particular way. This article proposes that the intersubjective illocutionary force of an utterance depends on (1) whether it concerns the speaker's or other's experience, (2) whether it takes the speaker…
Disclosure and anxiety
According to the fever model of Disclosure, the relationship of Disclosure (utterances that reveal subjective information) to psychological distress is analogous to the relationship of fever to physical infection: Both are indicators of some underlying disturbance and part of a restorative process. High and moderate trait anxious university students (but not the low trait anxious students) used higher percentages of Disclosure when speaking about…
Interactions of depressed college students with their roommates
Coyne's (1976b) interactional theory of the social environment's role in maintaining depression suggests that depressed people create negative affect in others. This leads to a pattern of interactions between depressed individuals and others that is aversive to both parties and becomes a vicious circle. We examined interactions of 15 depressed and 15 nondepressed college students with their roommates. On questionnaires, roommates did indicate mor…
Categories for classifying language in psychotherapy
Department of LinguisticsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillWilliam B. StilesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillA review of language analysis systems employed in psychotherapy research sug-gests a typology based on the combination of three category types with twocoding strategies. The types are (a) content categories, (b) intersubjective cate-gories, and (c) extralinguistic categories. They are denned by distinct sets oflanguage f…
Professorial presumptuousness in verbal interactions with university students
Immigrants' Continuing Bonds with their Native Culture
Three case studies of immigrants to the US from China, Iraq, and Mexico were used to build a theory of acculturation in immigrants by integrating the continuing bonds model, which describes mourning in bereavement with the assimilation model, which describes psychological change in psychotherapy. Participants were interviewed about the loss of their native culture and their life in the US. One participant had not fully assimilated the loss of her…
Consensual Qualitative Research
Role Behaviors in Routine Medical Interviews with Hypertensive Patients
The present study of routine follow-up interviews of 217 hypertensive patients by 11 health service providers (physicians or physician assistants) identified six types of verbal exchanges, exposition, closed question, direction, inquiry, explanation, and instruction/contracts. In conjunction with previous research, these results suggest that the verbal exchange structure of encounters between these roles is consistent across individuals, settings…
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
The verbal exchange theory of medical interviews (consultations) proposes that patients and clinicians employ a joint repertoire of exchanges to accomplish their goals in the encounter. The skeleton of each exchange is a set of speech acts that tend to be used together in interviews, for example, (a) clinician questions and patient yes/no answers, or (b) clinician directives and patient agreements to comply. We describe seven principal exchanges,…
Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981)
Nancy L. Miller, William B. Stiles, Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981), Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 72-81
Comparison of dimensions derived from rating versus coding of dialogue
A multilevel comparison of child abusers with nonabusers
Verbal Exchange Structure of General Practice Consultations with Patients Presenting Psychological Problems
The consultations of 88 patients presenting with psychological problems to primary care medical practitioners were tape- recorded, coded, and factor- analyzed to identify their constituent verbal exchanges. A verbal exchange is a set of speech act categories that tend to occur together and are used for some subtask within an encounter. The verbal exchange structure of these consultations replicated that of previously studied medical consultations…
Signs and voices
This commentary joins a conversation between Ryle and Leiman, which represents a larger conversation among theories of psychotherapy, semiotics and linguistics. The emerging collaborative understanding involves viewing people not as separate, unitary individuals but as mosaics or communities of different voices. The voices share their experiences by sign‐mediated communication and engage in joint action. Projective identification may be considere…
Verbal Processes in a Labour/Management Negotiation
The transcript of a labour/management negotiation was analysed using Stiles's verbal response modes (VRM) taxonomy to assess the value of general-purpose discourse analysis in studying negotiation processes. Temporal trends and labour/management differences in response mode use indicated that VRM coding successfully quantified important aspects of the negotiation. Comparisons were made between the results of VRM analysis and those of more special…
Verbal response modes and dimensions of interpersonal roles
Utterances in dyadic communication can be described as concerning the speaker's or the other's experience, using the speaker's or the other's frame of reference, and being focused on the speaker or the other (where focus means presuming or not presuming knowledge of the other). Each mode has a distinctive grammatical form as well as a distinctive interpersonal intent, so the form and the intent of an utterance can be coded separately. The modes c…
Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews
Dimensions of patient and physician roles in medical screening interviews
Interaction Exchange Structure and Patient Satisfaction with Medical Interviews
The verbal interaction between patients and physicians in 52 initial interviews in a university hospital screening clinic was studied using a new discourse coding system. Factor analysis of category frequencies showed that each interview segment, medical history, physical examination, and conclusion, consisted mainly of two or three types of verbal exchange. Patient satisfaction with the interviews, assessed with a questionnaire that yields separ…
Professorial presumptuousness in verbal interactions with university students
Categories for classifying language in psychotherapy
Department of LinguisticsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillWilliam B. StilesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillA review of language analysis systems employed in psychotherapy research sug-gests a typology based on the combination of three category types with twocoding strategies. The types are (a) content categories, (b) intersubjective cate-gories, and (c) extralinguistic categories. They are denned by distinct sets oflanguage f…
Comparison of dimensions derived from rating versus coding of dialogue
Relative status and interpersonal presumptuousness
Classification of intersubjective illocutionary acts
An illocutionary act presupposes not only a speaker, but also an other who is the intended recipient of the utterance's illocutionary force. Thus every illocutionary act has an intersubjective component; it connects two centers of experience in a particular way. This article proposes that the intersubjective illocutionary force of an utterance depends on (1) whether it concerns the speaker's or other's experience, (2) whether it takes the speaker…
American Campaign Oratory
Campaign speeches recorded during the 1980 American presidential primaries and college lectures were coded using a taxonomy of verbal response modes. Both candidates and lecturers used mostly informative modes, but candidates used relatively more Disclosures (subjective information) and fewer Edifications (objective information) than lecturers. Candidates distinctively used many Confirmation forms (“we” statements), perhaps to suggest that they s…
Role Behaviors in Routine Medical Interviews with Hypertensive Patients
The present study of routine follow-up interviews of 217 hypertensive patients by 11 health service providers (physicians or physician assistants) identified six types of verbal exchanges, exposition, closed question, direction, inquiry, explanation, and instruction/contracts. In conjunction with previous research, these results suggest that the verbal exchange structure of encounters between these roles is consistent across individuals, settings…
Patient Exposition and Physician Explanation in Initial Medical Interviews and Outcomes of Clinic Visits
To replicate an earlier study and explore associations between verbal behaviors in patient-physician interactions and outcomes of care, 102 visits to a medicine walk-in clinic were tape-recorded, transcribed, and coded according to the Verbal Response Mode (VRM) system. Questionnaires given before and after the clinic visit and telephone interviews 1 week and 4 weeks after the visit were used to measure patient satisfaction, compliance, and chang…
"Are all psychotherapies equivalent?"
"Are all psychotherapies equivalent?"
Despite clear demonstrations by process researchers of systematic differences in therapists' techniques, most reviews of psychotherapy outcome research show little or no differential effectiveness of different psychotherapies. This contradiction presents dilemma to researchers and practitioners. Numerous possible solutions have been suggested. Some of these challenge the apparent equivalence of outcome, arguing that differential results could be …
Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981)
Nancy L. Miller, William B. Stiles, Verbal Familiarity in American Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Inaugural Addresses (1920-1981), Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 72-81
A multilevel comparison of child abusers with nonabusers
Interactions of depressed college students with their roommates
Coyne's (1976b) interactional theory of the social environment's role in maintaining depression suggests that depressed people create negative affect in others. This leads to a pattern of interactions between depressed individuals and others that is aversive to both parties and becomes a vicious circle. We examined interactions of 15 depressed and 15 nondepressed college students with their roommates. On questionnaires, roommates did indicate mor…
Verbal Processes in a Labour/Management Negotiation
The transcript of a labour/management negotiation was analysed using Stiles's verbal response modes (VRM) taxonomy to assess the value of general-purpose discourse analysis in studying negotiation processes. Temporal trends and labour/management differences in response mode use indicated that VRM coding successfully quantified important aspects of the negotiation. Comparisons were made between the results of VRM analysis and those of more special…
Evaluating Medical Interview Process Components
A standard criterion for judging the value of a medical interview process component, such as physician information giving, is the degree to which it correlates with positive outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, compliance, or symptom relief. There is a serious problem, however, with this use of correlations. Physicians and patients, like any human beings, give and respond to signals as to what each requires in the interaction. Any such appropr…
Disclosure and anxiety
According to the fever model of Disclosure, the relationship of Disclosure (utterances that reveal subjective information) to psychological distress is analogous to the relationship of fever to physical infection: Both are indicators of some underlying disturbance and part of a restorative process. High and moderate trait anxious university students (but not the low trait anxious students) used higher percentages of Disclosure when speaking about…
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
The verbal exchange theory of medical interviews (consultations) proposes that patients and clinicians employ a joint repertoire of exchanges to accomplish their goals in the encounter. The skeleton of each exchange is a set of speech acts that tend to be used together in interviews, for example, (a) clinician questions and patient yes/no answers, or (b) clinician directives and patient agreements to comply. We describe seven principal exchanges,…
Quality control in qualitative research
Physician Frustration in Communicating with Patients
In this study, the nature of practicing physicians' "frustrating" visits was explored and a guide to help physicians identify problems in communicating with patients was developed. The study included 1,076 practicing physicians who attended a voluntary workshop on physician-patient communication. The physicians were from multiple specialties and diverse work settings geographically dispersed throughout the United States. The method included devel…
Verbal exchanges in medical interviews
Therapist contributions to psychotherapeutic assimilation
A psychotherapist's verbal interventions may be understood as promoting a client's eventual improvement by facilitating developmental change processes within the client. This approach is an alternative to the traditional search for statistical links between aggregates of therapist interventions and global outcome measures. Our approach employs models of clients' assimilation of problematic experiences within problem domains and therapists' implem…
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