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Mohamed, Khadija A.. Attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help with mandated clients. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-1f6s-y503

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TitleAttitudes towards seeking professional psychological help with mandated clients
NameMohamed, Khadija A. (author); Rotgers, Frederick (chair); Arnold-Berkovits, Ilona (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-08 (degree)
SubjectPsychology, Psychoanalytic counseling
Extent1 online resource (iv, 54 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionMandating counseling has become an increasingly popular alternative to other disciplinary actions in courtrooms, occupational settings, and on university campuses (Kiracofe & Wells, 2007). Despite its long history and growing popularity (Honea-Boles & Griffin, 2001; Kiracofe & Buller, 2009), conducting mandated therapy remains controversial. It has been argued that mandating treatment may deter individuals from seeking mental health treatment voluntarily in the future (Allen & Smith, 2001). It has also been argued that an outside body mandating therapy makes that institution the therapist’s client and, subsequently, the mandating body’s goals take precedence over the client’s goals. The presented study sought to examine attitude change towards seeking professional mental health services and the mitigating role of the working alliance for clients who are mandated to seek therapy. Participants were asked to complete a modified version of the Attitude Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help (ATSPPH) questionnaire developed by Williams et al., (2001) and the client version of the Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form (WAI-S) (Tracey & Kokotovic, 1989). It was hypothesized the numerical difference between the second and first administration of the modified ATSPPH would be positively correlated with the WAI-S. This hypothesis was confirmed. An analysis of the three-factor model for the WAI-S revealed a sizable relationship between attitudes towards seeking therapy and the WAI-S Bond and Goals subscales. Due to the small sample size, these findings should be interpreted with caution. Considerations for future research include incorporating a measure that assesses for perceived coercion, examining the impact of racial matching with mandated clients, and comparing the use of the modified ATSPPH questionnaire developed by Williams et al., (2001) with the Attitude Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help (ATSPPH-SF; Fischer & Farina, 1995).
NotePsy.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-1f6s-y503
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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