Therapeutic effectiveness of life style reframing

• Main Author: Mattakottil, Abraham C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1986
• Subjects: Lifestyles; Therapeutics—Effectiveness; Clinical Psychology; Counseling Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/615
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study investigates the therapeutic effectiveness of life style reframing. Life style reframing is a generic treatment modality which was designed by the researcher using insights from Milton H. Erickson, neuro-linguistic programming, and individual psychology of Alfred Adler. The design was idiographic (N=1), with the individual as the unit of study. The study was replicated over 10 middle class, English-speaking, college-educated Filipinas ranging in age between 23 to 51 years. The therapeutic interventions were administered using a standardized format, though departures from and addition to it had to be made for reported reasons and in consistency with the idiographic philosophy, but always within the generic modality of life style reframing. The sources of information about the changes on the outcome variables were: 1) oral and written feedback from the counselee 2) oral and written feedback from significant others and c) therapist assessment. The results showed that all the counselees did show treatment gains, to varying degrees of intensity and extensiveness. The gains were ascertained after a three-to-four-month period from the time therapy was initiated. The post-theraphy early recollections did show qualitative changes. Conclusions derived from the study were: 1) Adlerian concepts of life style and its underlying dynamics, and the method for analysis used seemed useful therapeutic aids. 2) The Adlerian concepts of life style as the self consistent unity behind human perception, experience, and activity seemed supported by the findings. 3) Post-therapy early recollections manifested qualitative changes suggesting its use as outcome measure. 4) Life Style Reframing was found therapeutically effective. 5) Life Style Reframing procedures seemed to assist the individual to evoke, alter, modify, chain and reorganize internal processes and responses by means of general but uniquely personalizable process instructions received and responded to by the individual in an altered state like relaxation.