Larry E Beutler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry E Beutler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry E |
| FAMILY NAME | Beutler |
| SIGNATURE | BEUTLER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perceptions of Disasters: Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perceptions of Disasters
Public risk perceptions of mass disasters carry considerable influences, both psychologically and economically, despite their oft-times imprecise nature. Prior research has identified the presence of an optimistic bias that affects risk perception, but there is a dearth of literature examining how these perceptions differ among cultures-particularly with regard to mass disasters. The present study explores differences among Japanese, Argentinean,…
Using mediators and moderators to test assumptions underlying culturally sensitive therapies: An exploratory example
Factors hypothesized to impact Asian American responses to counseling were tested as mediators and moderators of perceived counselor credibility and working alliance. Asian and European American college students (N = 182) were assigned randomly to view simulated directive or nondirective therapy approaches. Mediation analyses examined whether ethnic group differences in initial perceptions were accounted for by therapist understandability and pre…
The dirty dozen: Twelve failures of the Hurricane Katrina response and how psychology can help
This comprehensive analysis addresses the United States' alarming lack of preparedness to respond effectively to a massive disaster as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina. First, a timeline of problematic response events during and after Hurricane Katrina orients readers to some of the specific problems encountered at different levels of government. Second, a list of the "Dirty Dozen"--12 major failures that have occurred in prior disasters, which als…
Integrative assessment of adult personality
Publisher's description: Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this landmark text gives students and clinicians a solid grounding in the most widely used approaches to adult personality assessment. Beyond providing state-of-the-science coverage of specific instruments, the volume delineates a clear framework for integrating data from a variety of sources. The focus is on using assessment results effectively to develop evidence-based…
Client characteristics and psychotherapy: Perspectives, support, interactions, and implications for training
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
David and Goliath: When empirical and clinical standards of practice meet
Traditional clinical methods of assessing the effectiveness of psychological treatments have come under attack. Experience and strong belief frequently lead to false confidence in treatments and sometimes result in damage to patients. Advocates have called for a scientific standard to replace the extant standards based on expert opinion and cost. Yet there are costs to the use of both the old standards and scientific standards based on manualized…
David and Goliath: When empirical and clinical standards of practice meet
Guidelines for the systematic treatment of the depressed patient
This volume covers in detail the nature of depression, issues in treatment research, contemporary treatments, and implications for education and training
Bridging scientist and practitioner perspectives in clinical psychology
Bridging scientist and practitioner perspectives in clinical psychology
Literature suggests that a complex and often hostile relationship exists between the science and practice of clinical psychology. Contributors to this conflict of viewpoints are reconsidered within the proposition that there are different roads to discovery and that there may be good reasons to keep the science and practice of clinical psychology somewhat separate. Results of a national survey of 325 psychologists are reviewed that support the vi…
Efficacy of Treatment for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
It is common practice to recommend psychotherapy for children who have experienced sexual abuse. However, there is no agreed-upon means by which to assess the needs of these children or to determine the nature of the treatments to be offered. Most existing research bearing on these issues consists of descriptive data, pre- and postanalysis, and correlation studies of mixed and nonstandardized treatments. This research suggests that the rate of sp…
The Counseling Relationship: What is it
Systematic treatment selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions
Validity of the Cognitive Error Questionnaire with Depressed and Nondepressed Older Adults
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a measure of dysfunctional thinking when used with depressed and nondepressed older adults. Demographically similar groups of depressed and nondepressed elders completed the Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CEQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory. Scores from the questionnaire were submitted to factor analyses, and split-half reliabilities were calculated. The factor analyses in…
Patterns of Caffeine Use and Prescribed Medications in Psychiatric Inpatients
Two matched groups of inpatients ( N = 40) who had access only to caffeinated versus decaffeinated coffee on an acute psychiatric ward were compared using pre- and postchange measures. The two groups did not differ significantly on any of the psychological assessments or in medication use over the course of treatment, with the exception that patients given caffeinated coffee who received prescribed phenothiazines had significantly higher dosages …
Therapists' Perceptions of the Psychotherapeutic Process: Development of a Psychotherapy Process Inventory
A psychotherapeutic process inventory of 74 items rated by therapists over an “average” of a series of therapy sessions was developed. Following initial determination of the inventory's reliability, the ratings of 99 patients were factor analyzed. The analysis yielded four meaningful psychotherapeutic process factors, characterized as therapeutic participation, resistance, directive support, and dysphoric concerns. Factor scores were highly relia…
Effect of Time-Specific Sets and Patients' Personality Style on State and Trait Anxiety
60 subjects representing equal numbers of repressors arid sensitizers were matched for age and sex and evaluated on three measures of anxiety which differed in time span in which anxiety was estimated. As expected, sensitizers reported significantly greater anxiety than repressors regardless of the proximity of the time on which they based their estimates. A significant interaction between reports of anxiety and repression-sensitization demonstra…
The dirty dozen: Twelve failures of the Hurricane Katrina response and how psychology can help
This comprehensive analysis addresses the United States' alarming lack of preparedness to respond effectively to a massive disaster as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina. First, a timeline of problematic response events during and after Hurricane Katrina orients readers to some of the specific problems encountered at different levels of government. Second, a list of the "Dirty Dozen"--12 major failures that have occurred in prior disasters, which als…
Efficacy of Treatment for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
It is common practice to recommend psychotherapy for children who have experienced sexual abuse. However, there is no agreed-upon means by which to assess the needs of these children or to determine the nature of the treatments to be offered. Most existing research bearing on these issues consists of descriptive data, pre- and postanalysis, and correlation studies of mixed and nonstandardized treatments. This research suggests that the rate of sp…
Client characteristics and psychotherapy: Perspectives, support, interactions, and implications for training
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
Using mediators and moderators to test assumptions underlying culturally sensitive therapies: An exploratory example
Factors hypothesized to impact Asian American responses to counseling were tested as mediators and moderators of perceived counselor credibility and working alliance. Asian and European American college students (N = 182) were assigned randomly to view simulated directive or nondirective therapy approaches. Mediation analyses examined whether ethnic group differences in initial perceptions were accounted for by therapist understandability and pre…
Effect of Time-Specific Sets and Patients' Personality Style on State and Trait Anxiety
60 subjects representing equal numbers of repressors arid sensitizers were matched for age and sex and evaluated on three measures of anxiety which differed in time span in which anxiety was estimated. As expected, sensitizers reported significantly greater anxiety than repressors regardless of the proximity of the time on which they based their estimates. A significant interaction between reports of anxiety and repression-sensitization demonstra…
Therapists' Perceptions of the Psychotherapeutic Process: Development of a Psychotherapy Process Inventory
A psychotherapeutic process inventory of 74 items rated by therapists over an “average” of a series of therapy sessions was developed. Following initial determination of the inventory's reliability, the ratings of 99 patients were factor analyzed. The analysis yielded four meaningful psychotherapeutic process factors, characterized as therapeutic participation, resistance, directive support, and dysphoric concerns. Factor scores were highly relia…
Patterns of Caffeine Use and Prescribed Medications in Psychiatric Inpatients
Two matched groups of inpatients ( N = 40) who had access only to caffeinated versus decaffeinated coffee on an acute psychiatric ward were compared using pre- and postchange measures. The two groups did not differ significantly on any of the psychological assessments or in medication use over the course of treatment, with the exception that patients given caffeinated coffee who received prescribed phenothiazines had significantly higher dosages …
Validity of the Cognitive Error Questionnaire with Depressed and Nondepressed Older Adults
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a measure of dysfunctional thinking when used with depressed and nondepressed older adults. Demographically similar groups of depressed and nondepressed elders completed the Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CEQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory. Scores from the questionnaire were submitted to factor analyses, and split-half reliabilities were calculated. The factor analyses in…
Systematic treatment selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions
Efficacy of Treatment for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
It is common practice to recommend psychotherapy for children who have experienced sexual abuse. However, there is no agreed-upon means by which to assess the needs of these children or to determine the nature of the treatments to be offered. Most existing research bearing on these issues consists of descriptive data, pre- and postanalysis, and correlation studies of mixed and nonstandardized treatments. This research suggests that the rate of sp…
The Counseling Relationship: What is it
Bridging scientist and practitioner perspectives in clinical psychology
Bridging scientist and practitioner perspectives in clinical psychology
Literature suggests that a complex and often hostile relationship exists between the science and practice of clinical psychology. Contributors to this conflict of viewpoints are reconsidered within the proposition that there are different roads to discovery and that there may be good reasons to keep the science and practice of clinical psychology somewhat separate. Results of a national survey of 325 psychologists are reviewed that support the vi…
David and Goliath: When empirical and clinical standards of practice meet
Traditional clinical methods of assessing the effectiveness of psychological treatments have come under attack. Experience and strong belief frequently lead to false confidence in treatments and sometimes result in damage to patients. Advocates have called for a scientific standard to replace the extant standards based on expert opinion and cost. Yet there are costs to the use of both the old standards and scientific standards based on manualized…
David and Goliath: When empirical and clinical standards of practice meet
Guidelines for the systematic treatment of the depressed patient
This volume covers in detail the nature of depression, issues in treatment research, contemporary treatments, and implications for education and training
Client characteristics and psychotherapy: Perspectives, support, interactions, and implications for training
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
Integrative assessment of adult personality
Publisher's description: Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this landmark text gives students and clinicians a solid grounding in the most widely used approaches to adult personality assessment. Beyond providing state-of-the-science coverage of specific instruments, the volume delineates a clear framework for integrating data from a variety of sources. The focus is on using assessment results effectively to develop evidence-based…
Using mediators and moderators to test assumptions underlying culturally sensitive therapies: An exploratory example
Factors hypothesized to impact Asian American responses to counseling were tested as mediators and moderators of perceived counselor credibility and working alliance. Asian and European American college students (N = 182) were assigned randomly to view simulated directive or nondirective therapy approaches. Mediation analyses examined whether ethnic group differences in initial perceptions were accounted for by therapist understandability and pre…
The dirty dozen: Twelve failures of the Hurricane Katrina response and how psychology can help
This comprehensive analysis addresses the United States' alarming lack of preparedness to respond effectively to a massive disaster as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina. First, a timeline of problematic response events during and after Hurricane Katrina orients readers to some of the specific problems encountered at different levels of government. Second, a list of the "Dirty Dozen"--12 major failures that have occurred in prior disasters, which als…
Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perceptions of Disasters: Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perceptions of Disasters
Public risk perceptions of mass disasters carry considerable influences, both psychologically and economically, despite their oft-times imprecise nature. Prior research has identified the presence of an optimistic bias that affects risk perception, but there is a dearth of literature examining how these perceptions differ among cultures-particularly with regard to mass disasters. The present study explores differences among Japanese, Argentinean,…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Counseling Practices and Supervision (4 works)