Dennis Kivlighan

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University of Maryland at College Park

United States

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Professor Dennis Kivlighan is the Chair at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His research primarily focuses on helping skills variability, therapeutic alliance, and group dynamics in psychotherapy, particularly as they relate to emotional cultivation in youth. Recent publications have explored the interplay between attachment styles and therapeutic outcomes, as well as the impact of interpersonal responsiveness in clinical practice.

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Clara Hill

Professor

University of Maryland

UNITED STATES

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Gianluca Lo Coco

Full Professor

Università degli Studi di Palermo

ITALY

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Agostino Brugnera

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology

University of Bergamo

ITALY

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Sangida Akter

University of Maryland at College Park

UNITED STATES

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Lydia HaRim Ahn

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Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

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Therapist interpersonal responsiveness: Being interpersonally flexible in response to client collaboration

Association between helping skills variability and subsequent client functioning: Mediated by working alliance and session evaluation.

Group Leader and Member Here-and-now Focus and Therapeutic Factors: A Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count Analysis

Group climate temporally precedes member improvement in emotional cultivation groups for youth

Leader and group effects for outcomes in emotional cultivation groups for youth.

Group member attachment style interacts with actor and partner helping alliance to predict decreasing binge eating episodes

Advice-giving in final sessions of therapist-terminated psychodynamic psychotherapy: is it advised?

Antecedents and consequences of open and closed questions in intake sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy

Helping skills training: Outcomes and trainer effects.

Family therapy for maltreated youth: Can a strengthening therapeutic alliance empower change?

Illustrating systemic change in family therapy: How therapists’ and clients’ alliance perceptions codevelop over time

Changes in meaning in life, working alliance, and outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy: What leads to what?

The within-client alliance-outcome relationship: A response surface analysis.

Therapist initial attachment style, changes in attachment style during training, and client outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Who gets to talk: Interruptive behaviors in engager and non-engager intake sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy

Mapping the progress of the process: Codevelopment of the therapeutic alliance with maltreated adolescents.

Collaborators (5)

Clara Hill

Gianluca Lo Coco

Agostino Brugnera

Sangida Akter

Lydia HaRim Ahn

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