Imagens mentais em psicoterapia: estudo empírico sobre sua eficácia e a importância da atitude e da habilidade do cliente em manejá-las. / Mental imagery in psychotherapy: an empirical investigation on their efficacy and the importance of clientsattitude and skill in handling them.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

This investigations purpose was to evaluate the efficacy of brief group psychotherapy based on guided imagery, and if this efficacy was related to clientsattitude toward imagination and clientsimagery vividness and control. Guided imagery, aimed to promote slightly altered states of consciousness, were used with the purpose of activating supra conscious psychological potentials to help undergraduates with test anxiety problems. Measures of an experimental group (n=32) on test anxiety, attitude toward imagination, imagery vividness and control scales, taken before and after the therapeutic strategys implementation, were compared with measures of a control group (n=50). Statistical analysis indicated the success of the therapeutic method employed but no clear connections between this success and the imagery related variables considered.

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imagem mental psicoterapia de grupo imaginação imagination student counselling aconselhamento estudantil mental imagery psychotherapy psicoterapia group psychotherapy

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