James A. Schmidt

Personality Disorder Styles and Reciprocal Interpersonal Impacts During Outpatient Intake Interviews

This study investigated the relationship between personality disorder styles and the reciprocal interpersonal impacts of patients and intake clinicians. Ninety-two outpatients were interviewed by 29 mental health professionals as part of an intake procedure at a psychiatric outpatient clinic. Following the interview, clinicians and patients rated their perceptions of, and their reactions to, one another. These reciprocal “impact” ratings were analyzed in relation to patient scores on the MMPI Personality Disorder Scales. Most personality disorder styles were associated with increased hostile reciprocal impacts. Histrionic and narcissistic styles, however, were related to increased warm and friendly reciprocal impacts. These results suggest that patients with personality disorder styles elicit constrained reactions from the clinician, misperceive clinician behavior, and / or pull clinicians into constrained interaction patterns. Diese Studie untersuchte die Beziehung zwischen Personlichkeitsstorungsstilen ...

A comparison of computer-assisted and self-management programs for reducing alcohol use among students in first year experience courses.

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has called for the use of evidence-based approaches to address high-risk drinking prevalent on many college campuses. In line with this recommendation, the present study evaluated the efficacy of two evidence-based approaches to reducing alcohol use. One hundred and three college students in first-year experience courses were randomly assigned by class to participate in a computer-assisted online program (e-Chug Group), skills training program (Self-Management Group), or control condition (Exercise Group). The data indicate that heavier drinkers benefited from the e-Chug program, whereas lighter drinkers benefited from the self-management program. As such, colleges may yield more favorable results when forgoing a blanket approach to decreasing alcohol consumption in favor of matching students with an appropriate alcohol program.