2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study of Negative Effects in Psychotherapy and Counseling

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21530727
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	Hyogo University of Teacher Education
Principal Investigator	ENDO Hirono 兵庫教育大学, 大学院・学校教育研究科, 准教授 (60332764)
Research Collaborator	岡本かおり千葉県スクールカウンセラー
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	心理療法 / 心理面接過程 / 負の効果 / リアリティ・ショック / インフォームド・コンセント
Research Abstract	This study investigated negative effects in psychotherapy using three research programs :(1) construction of the scale for clinical psychologist trainee's knowledge of negative effects,(2) examination of the relationships between trainee's knowledge of negative effects and reality shock, and(3) making a survey of the informed consent in psychotherapy regarding the possibilities of negative effects. The results as follow :(1) the knowledge scale of negative effects was constructed from four subscales,(2) the hypothesis that the trainee's with higher knowledge of negative effects gave lower ratings with regard to reality shock was partly supported,(3) almost all clinical psychologist did not use documents for informed consent but do a vocal communication about negative effects depending on the process of psychotherapy.