Arthur C Bohart
Biographic Data
| ID | 5378464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur C Bohart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohart |
| SIGNATURE | BOHART A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Dominguez Hills |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mindfulness is full engagement
Therapist empathy and client outcome: An updated meta-analysis.
Put simply, empathy refers to understanding what another person is experiencing or trying to express. Therapist empathy has a long history as a hypothesized key change process in psychotherapy. We begin by discussing definitional issues and presenting an integrative definition. We then review measures of therapist empathy, including the conceptual problem of separating empathy from other relationship variables. We follow this with clinical exampl…
Empathy.
After defining empathy, discussing its measurement, and offering an example of empathy in practice, we present the results of an updated meta-analysis of the relation between empathy and psychotherapy outcome. Results indicated that empathy is a moderately strong predictor of therapy outcome: mean weighted r = .31 (p < .001; 95% confidence interval: .28-.34), for 59 independent samples and 3599 clients. Although the empathy-outcome relation held …
Experiencing Carl Rogers From the Client's Point of View: A Vicarious Ethnographic Investigation. I. Extraction and Perception of Meaning
Therapy is usually described from therapist's point of view. It is often portrayed as a process of interventions operating on clients to produce changes in structures and processes. Even Carl Rogers has been portrayed as a directive, interventionist therapist. Despite statements that it is clients who make therapy work there are virtually no descriptions of how clients do this. In this study 2 researchers used a vicarious empathic ethnographic me…
The feeling of realness: Evil and meaning making
Many acts of violence and oppression are committed in the name of moral righteousness and other “higher” principles. I try to understand this phenomenon in the context of the events of September 11. I argue that a “feeling of realness” underlies the ability of humans to feel so morally righteous that they are willing to kill and oppress others. I discuss the role of reflectivity in transcending the feeling of realness to make morally complex deci…
A meditation on the nature of self-healing and personality change in psychotherapy based on Gendlin's theory of experiencing
From a humanistic point of view psychotherapy is a creative transformational process in which therapists assist clients’ intrinsic self‐healing tendencies. However the nature of the self‐healing process is poorly understood. I briefly consider two theories of self‐healing, Rogers’ self‐actualization theory and dialectical theory, but focus on Gendlin's theory of experiencing as providing a more complete explanation. I consider the fundamentally i…
Humanistic psychology and positive psychology
The Active Client: Therapy as Self-Help
A model of how therapy works is proposed that locates the source of therapeutic change in the client, while the therapist is the provider of opportunities, ideas, and experiences. Ultimately all therapy is self-help. This model is contrasted with the medical-like model of therapy as treatment and hopes to account for research findings of equal effectiveness among different therapies. Although the active client model developed from existential-hum…
"Introduction to "The Growing Edge in Humanistic and Experiential Therapies
Emphasizing the Future in Empathy Responses
Recently, a view of the human being as a fundamentally futureoriented organism has become more popular in both psychotherapy and personality theory. The future-oriented nature of the human consists ofthe fact that there is always a "next" in human experience and of a sense of possibility. A goal of therapy is to restore the sense of "next" and of possibility. Empathy responses can be framed to focus on present aspects of experience or on future-o…
Empathy in Client-Centered Therapy: A Contrast with Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
While empathy is important in psychoanalytic, self-psychological, and client-centered therapies, its primary function is seen as different in each. For client-centered therapy, the major function of empathy is to create a certain kind of learning experience through which clients come to live and relate to themselves differently. Specifically, it is to help people develop the "skill" of learning to use experiential referents in making moment-to-mo…
Empathy: Client centered and psychoanalytic
Empathy: Client centered and psychoanalytic
Self-Perception of Therapeutic Gain as a Function of Situational Cues
It was hypothesized that a client's sell-perception of improvement in therapy is in part a function of situational cues. Clients will see themselves as changing in ways implicitly suggested by such cues. In contrast, an “intrapsychic” view sees change as a function of internal mechanisms. Sixtyfive undergraduate Ss self-disclosed on a problem for 10 minutes via intercom to a silent “listener” in another room. Ss were then assigned to one of four …
Effects of paraprofessional training on one aspect of generalized interpersonal effectiveness
Attributions of Success and Failure
A 20-item questionnaire was administered to 388 Ss. The questionnaire consisted of items involving success or failure. Half the items were about one's self (actor) and half about someone else (observer). For each situation there were four possible causes: (1) task difficulty, (2) luck, (3) ability, and (4) effort. The results showed that effort was rated significantly higher than the other causes, while luck was rated significantly lower. Also, t…
Emphasizing the Future in Empathy Responses
Recently, a view of the human being as a fundamentally futureoriented organism has become more popular in both psychotherapy and personality theory. The future-oriented nature of the human consists ofthe fact that there is always a "next" in human experience and of a sense of possibility. A goal of therapy is to restore the sense of "next" and of possibility. Empathy responses can be framed to focus on present aspects of experience or on future-o…
The Active Client: Therapy as Self-Help
A model of how therapy works is proposed that locates the source of therapeutic change in the client, while the therapist is the provider of opportunities, ideas, and experiences. Ultimately all therapy is self-help. This model is contrasted with the medical-like model of therapy as treatment and hopes to account for research findings of equal effectiveness among different therapies. Although the active client model developed from existential-hum…
Empathy in Client-Centered Therapy: A Contrast with Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
While empathy is important in psychoanalytic, self-psychological, and client-centered therapies, its primary function is seen as different in each. For client-centered therapy, the major function of empathy is to create a certain kind of learning experience through which clients come to live and relate to themselves differently. Specifically, it is to help people develop the "skill" of learning to use experiential referents in making moment-to-mo…
"Introduction to "The Growing Edge in Humanistic and Experiential Therapies
Effects of paraprofessional training on one aspect of generalized interpersonal effectiveness
Attributions of Success and Failure
A 20-item questionnaire was administered to 388 Ss. The questionnaire consisted of items involving success or failure. Half the items were about one's self (actor) and half about someone else (observer). For each situation there were four possible causes: (1) task difficulty, (2) luck, (3) ability, and (4) effort. The results showed that effort was rated significantly higher than the other causes, while luck was rated significantly lower. Also, t…
Effects of paraprofessional training on one aspect of generalized interpersonal effectiveness
Self-Perception of Therapeutic Gain as a Function of Situational Cues
It was hypothesized that a client's sell-perception of improvement in therapy is in part a function of situational cues. Clients will see themselves as changing in ways implicitly suggested by such cues. In contrast, an “intrapsychic” view sees change as a function of internal mechanisms. Sixtyfive undergraduate Ss self-disclosed on a problem for 10 minutes via intercom to a silent “listener” in another room. Ss were then assigned to one of four …
Empathy: Client centered and psychoanalytic
Empathy: Client centered and psychoanalytic
Empathy in Client-Centered Therapy: A Contrast with Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
While empathy is important in psychoanalytic, self-psychological, and client-centered therapies, its primary function is seen as different in each. For client-centered therapy, the major function of empathy is to create a certain kind of learning experience through which clients come to live and relate to themselves differently. Specifically, it is to help people develop the "skill" of learning to use experiential referents in making moment-to-mo…
"Introduction to "The Growing Edge in Humanistic and Experiential Therapies
Emphasizing the Future in Empathy Responses
Recently, a view of the human being as a fundamentally futureoriented organism has become more popular in both psychotherapy and personality theory. The future-oriented nature of the human consists ofthe fact that there is always a "next" in human experience and of a sense of possibility. A goal of therapy is to restore the sense of "next" and of possibility. Empathy responses can be framed to focus on present aspects of experience or on future-o…
The Active Client: Therapy as Self-Help
A model of how therapy works is proposed that locates the source of therapeutic change in the client, while the therapist is the provider of opportunities, ideas, and experiences. Ultimately all therapy is self-help. This model is contrasted with the medical-like model of therapy as treatment and hopes to account for research findings of equal effectiveness among different therapies. Although the active client model developed from existential-hum…
A meditation on the nature of self-healing and personality change in psychotherapy based on Gendlin's theory of experiencing
From a humanistic point of view psychotherapy is a creative transformational process in which therapists assist clients’ intrinsic self‐healing tendencies. However the nature of the self‐healing process is poorly understood. I briefly consider two theories of self‐healing, Rogers’ self‐actualization theory and dialectical theory, but focus on Gendlin's theory of experiencing as providing a more complete explanation. I consider the fundamentally i…
Humanistic psychology and positive psychology
The feeling of realness: Evil and meaning making
Many acts of violence and oppression are committed in the name of moral righteousness and other “higher” principles. I try to understand this phenomenon in the context of the events of September 11. I argue that a “feeling of realness” underlies the ability of humans to feel so morally righteous that they are willing to kill and oppress others. I discuss the role of reflectivity in transcending the feeling of realness to make morally complex deci…
Experiencing Carl Rogers From the Client's Point of View: A Vicarious Ethnographic Investigation. I. Extraction and Perception of Meaning
Therapy is usually described from therapist's point of view. It is often portrayed as a process of interventions operating on clients to produce changes in structures and processes. Even Carl Rogers has been portrayed as a directive, interventionist therapist. Despite statements that it is clients who make therapy work there are virtually no descriptions of how clients do this. In this study 2 researchers used a vicarious empathic ethnographic me…
Empathy.
After defining empathy, discussing its measurement, and offering an example of empathy in practice, we present the results of an updated meta-analysis of the relation between empathy and psychotherapy outcome. Results indicated that empathy is a moderately strong predictor of therapy outcome: mean weighted r = .31 (p < .001; 95% confidence interval: .28-.34), for 59 independent samples and 3599 clients. Although the empathy-outcome relation held …
Therapist empathy and client outcome: An updated meta-analysis.
Put simply, empathy refers to understanding what another person is experiencing or trying to express. Therapist empathy has a long history as a hypothesized key change process in psychotherapy. We begin by discussing definitional issues and presenting an integrative definition. We then review measures of therapist empathy, including the conceptual problem of separating empathy from other relationship variables. We follow this with clinical exampl…
Mindfulness is full engagement
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychotherapist (11 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Empathy (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Humanism (4 works) · Perception (4 works)