Valuable portrait of a Ukrainian who is potentially interested in psychotherapy
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https://doi.org/10.35774/pis2019.01.052Keywords:
psychotherapy, client, client involvement, therapeutic alliance, survival values, self-expression valuesAbstract
The paper presents the results of theoretical analysis and empirical investigation on the values of the Ukrainians potentially interested in psychotherapy. The review of the latest foreign articles shows that except for demographic characteristics and the place of living, the faith of a client in therapy, her will and readiness to undergo cooperate, her psychological “inclination”, education, a general level of psycho-social functioning, attachment type, level of denial as well as matching of a client’s and therapist’s values and religious beliefs may be potential predictors of a client involvement into therapy and creating good therapeutic alliance. Within the hypothesis that we offer one more meaningful factor is the dominance of secular-rational values (after R. Inglehart) among subjects potentially interested in psychotherapy. This hypothesis tested on the Ukrainian sample was rejected, yet it was found that subjects with 1-year psychotherapy experience (experimental group) are distinctly different from those who never addressed a psychotherapist in self-expression values in particular. This difference manifests itself in a greater tolerance to another person, ability to trust others, and desire to realize oneself in creative activity or public life. Meanwhile, in the group of subjects with no psyсhotherapeutic experience the dominance of survival values was found. Mistrust to different manifestations of otherness, the feeling of insecurity, and a desire to follow traditional values typical of family and community are their characteristics. We are unaware by now whether the presence of these values are an antecedent, one of influential factors for acknowledging the necessity to address a psychotherapist or a certain result of the therapy itself. Grounding on other researchers’ data, we find both variants probable: psychotherapy is potentially interesting, first of all, for those oriented on self-expression values and reinforces these values in the process of lessening a client’s suffering.
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