INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Choosing a therapist in private health care
Autor/es:
CASARI LEANDRO; IBAÑEZ GIL MARÍA ANABEL ; NARDECCHIA AGOSTINA ; LUCENTINI AGOSTINA ; MORETTI MARÍA PAULA; FLORAMO VALERIA
Lugar:
Ciudad Autónoma de Bs as.
Reunión:
Congreso; 50th Annual International Meeting for Psychotherapy Research; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Society for Psychotherapy Research
Resumen:
Aims:To explore different reasons for choosing a therapist in private health care, including the preference for the therapist´s sex.Methods:Intentional sample of 300 psychotherapy patients that have attended a minimun of three sesions. Average age: 30.65 (SD: 11.20), of both sexes (female= 80.1 %, male= 19.9). An Ad Hoc questionnaire was developed to explore these goals including several questions about the reasons for selecting a therapist, and the degree of this influence. The second part of the protocol included the Helping Alliance Questionnaire. Patients were invited to fill out an online surveyed questionnarieResultsThe therapist´s sex preferred was mainly female 78.8 %. There is a statistical preference towards choosing a female therapist (X2 (1)= 4.203, p< .05) by both men and women. The most frequent reason for choosing a therapist were: accessible fees (61 %), recommendation of family or friends (55 %), distance from home or work (49.3 %), theoretical orientation of the psychologist (47.9 %), and therapist´s sex (44.5 %)DiscussionThe process of seeking therapy includes three stages: deciding that therapy might help, deciding to seek therapy, and contacting a therapist (Elliot et al., 2015). In some countries, there are many psychologists in private practice offering their services (Maffei et al., 2015), so the patients are able to choose according to their preferences among various professionals, including the treatment to receive (Tompkins et al., 2017). The second stage of this research is to study the relationship between this choice and a therapeutic alliance.