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Southern New Hampshire University

January 6th, 2019

Research question: “Does self-disclosure of the therapist improve eating disorder treatment.” 

Hypothesis: Self-disclosure of the therapist improves eating disorder treatment.

Information On Research

The key variables for this research are self-disclosure of the therapist and eating disorder treatment. This research will focus on online research whereby participants will be recruited from an eating disorder charity database. The participants will be asked about the status of their condition and how they feel about having the disorder. The neutral condition will be that the therapists will disclose their sexuality and their feelings towards the patients’ conditions and personality (Marziliano, Pessin, Rosenfeld, & Breitbart, 2018). 

Process of Study

The study will continue for two months with the therapists making contact with the participants once every week. These conditions will form the independent variables. The dependent variable would be participants continued to receive positive self-disclosures from the therapist leading to a greater level of patient self-disclosure, which lowered their shame, and encouraged the participants to continue with the treatment process. The participants will also be asked if they have been involved in any treatment before, and how they could describe their therapeutic alliance (Fuertes, Moore, & Ganley, 2018). 

A longitudinal study and the rate of drop-out will be used to gather more information about the participants. The collected data will then be analyzed in relation to the independent variables by the end of the study. One of the ethical issues, which will be looked into while

References

Fuertes, J. N., Moore, M., & Ganley, J. (2018). Therapists’ and clients’ ratings of real relationship, attachment, therapist self-disclosure, and treatment progress. Psychotherapy Research, 1-13.

Kass, A., Kolko, R., & Wilfley, D. (July 14, 2015). Psychological Treatments for Eating Disorders. PMC. Doi:10.1097/YCO.0b013e32865a30e

Lock, J. (September 2010). Treatment of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Progress and Challenges. PMC, 51(3): 207–216. Pmcid: PMC3083856

Marziliano, A., Pessin, H., Rosenfeld, B., & Breitbart, W. (2018). Measuring Cohesion and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy Groups for Patients with Advanced Cancer: An Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Group Therapy Experience Scale. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1-21.

Natenshon, A. (2017). Eating Disorders: A Treatment Apart. The Unique Use of the Therapist’s Self in the Treatment of Eating Disorders. DOI: 10.5772/65697.

Simonds, L. & Spokes, N. (2017). Therapist self-disclosue and the therapeutic alliance in the treamtment of eating problems, Eating Disorders, 25:2, 151-164, doi:10.1080/10640266.2016.1269557

Young, Melissa A.. (2012). Eating Disorder Clinicians: From Personal Recovery to Supporting Others. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/msw_papers/108