TY - JOUR
T1 - Does therapist experience influence interruptions of women clients?
AU - Werner-Wilson, Ronald Jay
AU - Murphy, Megan J.
AU - Fitzharris, Jennifer Lynn
PY - 2004/11/22
Y1 - 2004/11/22
N2 - The feminist critique of marriage and family therapy and studies of interruptions in conversation influenced the topic of the present study. We replicated methodology from a study (Werner-Wilson, Price, Zimmerman, & Murphy, 1997) in which the researchers reported that student therapists interrupted women clients more frequently than male clients. Those results may have been related to therapist inexperience-since the therapists were students. In the present study we compared interruptions from student therapists to those identified as “master” therapists who had extensive clinical experience. Analysis of Variance was used to compare videotaped sessions of therapists in marriage and family therapy training sessions to therapists from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Masters series. Results suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the rate of interruptions used by students versus experienced therapists. Both groups interrupted women clients more often than men clients, a finding that replicates the earlier study by Werner-Wilson and colleagues (1997), which increases the generalizability about this pattern in marriage and family therapy.
AB - The feminist critique of marriage and family therapy and studies of interruptions in conversation influenced the topic of the present study. We replicated methodology from a study (Werner-Wilson, Price, Zimmerman, & Murphy, 1997) in which the researchers reported that student therapists interrupted women clients more frequently than male clients. Those results may have been related to therapist inexperience-since the therapists were students. In the present study we compared interruptions from student therapists to those identified as “master” therapists who had extensive clinical experience. Analysis of Variance was used to compare videotaped sessions of therapists in marriage and family therapy training sessions to therapists from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Masters series. Results suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the rate of interruptions used by students versus experienced therapists. Both groups interrupted women clients more often than men clients, a finding that replicates the earlier study by Werner-Wilson and colleagues (1997), which increases the generalizability about this pattern in marriage and family therapy.
KW - Couples therapy
KW - Feminist family therapy
KW - Process research
KW - Therapy dynamics
KW - Training
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U2 - 10.1300/J086v16n01_03
DO - 10.1300/J086v16n01_03
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85023948437
SN - 0895-2833
VL - 16
SP - 39
EP - 49
JO - Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
JF - Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
IS - 1
ER -