Estilo personal del terapeuta y dirección de intereses

Abstract

The principal aim of the present study is to penetrate into the knowledge of the Personal Style of the Therapist (EPT) and to study the relations between different functions of this style and the direction of interests of the therapists in training. The EPT is evaluated by the questionnaire EPT-C (Fernandez-Alvarez, García, LoBianco, & Corbella, 2003) that distinguishes six functions that allow drawing the personal profile of every therapist: instruccional. attentional, expressive. operational and involucrative. The direction of interest of the therapist is evaluated across the questionnaire D1Q (Caine,. Wijesinghe &Winter, 1981), which distinguishes between an internal or external direction. The sample of the study is form by 91 licentiates (9.9 % men and 90.1 % women) that are dealing a Master in psychotherapy. The results of the analyses indicate a few moderate and significant correlations between the functions attentional (receptive) and operative (spontaneously) and the internal direction of interests