Volume 23, Issue 2
Correlations Between Personal Style of Therapist and Clinical Scales of MMPI-II
Abstract
The main objective of this study was to analyze the relation between Personal Style of Therapist and Personality. The measurement used were the Therapist's Personal Style questionnaire (PST-Q; Fernández-Álvarez, García, Lo Bianco y Corbella, 2003) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II (MMPI-II; Hathaway & McKinley, 1995). The study sample consists of 20 therapists in training with a mean age of 23 years (SD = 1,8). 10 Therapists are under graduated on Psychology and 10 psychologist's students of a Master on Brief Therapy. The analysis of the results indicates that therapists of both levels of studies were emotionally near first with the expressive function of PST-Q, followed by operational function. indicating a high level of closeness between therapist and client. While near were less involvement function. It also presents sample results separating the undergraduate and Master degree students. The only significant negative correlation was between attentional function and scale of Hypomania (Ma).
Keywords
Therapist's personal style, personality, therapists in training, psychotherapy research