Issue 4 – August 2007

Editorial
Enikő Albert-Lőrincz

ARTICLES

Overview
Richard Bents, Ilona Erős: Questionnaires in organizational consulting and coaching
Research
Gabriella Inczédy-Farkas, Lajos Simon, Zsolt Unoka, Pál Czóbor:The impact of group members’ cognitive schemas on their mutual emotional choices
Questions of practice
Márta Merényi: Significance of states of mind in the psychodynamic movement and dance therapy
Pearls
Magda Szőnyi: The special task of professional carrier advisory boards regarding the medical profession
Work in progress
László Bokor: Psychotherapy as an educational subject. Comparison of method specific trainings

PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Point of view — Klára Ajkay, László Bokor, Ilona Fonyó, János Rudas on co-therapy
Letter to the editor — Éva Urbán on continuous education
Conferences — Ilona Erős, Dia Bozsogi, Aranka Tiringer, Mária Horti

Book reviews — Rita Berghammer ¨István Tiringer

Professional Programs

Overview
Richard Bents, Ilona Erős: Questionnaires in organizational consulting and coaching

In this essay we study the use of questionnaires and surveys in the field of coaching and organizational consultancy. The survey gives guidance to both the client and the consultant therefore their use is more and more widespread. The two authors write the essay on their aggregated 30 years of experience in using questionnaires in organizational work. We review how the need appeared after the radical political and economic change in Hungary, and the increasing significance of organizational and leadership development. Also we review some broadly applied questionnaire types. With the increase of use, also the misuse of such tools is becoming common. Therefore we suggest cautious and client-fitting use of the questionnaires. In our experience the use of these tools can be attractive and frightful at the same time for the client. The client must be sure that we use the questionnaire for his interests and the interests of his organization with the goal of achieving practical results.

Research
Gabriella Inczédy-Farkas, Lajos Simon, Zsolt Unoka, Pál Czóbor:The impact of group members’ cognitive schemas on their mutual emotional choices

This study is focused on the impact of maladaptive schemas on group members’ relationships evolved in group-psychotherapy setting. Early cognitive schemas distort the interpretation of social ties and influence the subject’s behaviour. Our hypothesis was that such biased perceptions cause errors in the assignment of one’s perceived distance from others, which can be detected with sociometric methods.
Out of the numerous sociometric methods we chose convergence analysis to examine mutual choosing of hospitalized group members.
According to our results certain schemas do influence consequently and significantly the subject’s perception and therefore cause a bias in the mutual choices of group members. Thus, such maladaptive schemas determine the member’s communication in the group and the group processes.
We find that it is crucial to identify and target these maladaptive schemas in cognitive group psychotherapy setting. The theoretical and methodological impact of our study is that the identification of group members’ schemas enables the therapists to predict elements of group behaviour, the members’ predictable hierarchical position and therefore it enables them to understand better the structure and dynamics of the group.

Questions of practice
Márta Merényi: Significance of states of mind in the psychodynamic movement and dance therapy

The study first examines the important of bodily experiences in early development emphasising its relational dimension and highlights the representation of early relational experiences. After giving a short introduction on the effectiveness and methods of psychodynamic movement-and-dance therapy, the author describes altered states of mind achieved via techniques of body awareness attention.
The author also analyses how the individual’s early self-organising modalities appear in work with altered states of mind and how the therapist consciously works with these states.

Pearls
Magda Szőnyi: The special task of professional carrier advisory boards regarding the medical profession

The task of the Professional Carrier Institute is to advise and train school leavers. From the sixties (and again, at the beginning of the eighties) there has been high over- application for the medical faculties. Not even those who received maximum points could all get in. Those school leavers who achieved maximum pints and could not get in were given pre-admittance status. They had to find employment for a year in the medical field.
It was part of the Professional Carrier Institute’s job to find employment for such students. It was decided to provide them with  psychological assistance as well. This study is a summary of that programme and aims at further acceptance of it.
The programme to prepare students for the medical profession was carried out for two years. One group worked for half a year, in 24×2 hours. Participation was voluntary, three groups were active altogether. Some data for research as been collected as well (recording of sessions; a form to fill in that was also used in the Psychotherapy Week-ends; a programme evaluating form).
Fate of the programme mirrors the times: first it was supported, then stopped after two years. The author was punished for „working outside her area” by not getting the usual annual price.

Work in progress
László Bokor: Psychotherapy as an educational subject. Comparison of method specific trainings

The study provides a general survey about the method specific phase if the Hungarian psychotherapeutic training represented by method specific training societies. Surveys and compares the educational requirements of the Hungarian method specific phase of psychotherapeutic training, and the changes of the number of therapists and trainers belonging to the specific training societies between, 1995-2006. The data came from Pszichoterapeuta Kiskáté edited in 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2006.
The study demonstrates and analyse the development of the Hungarian psychotherapeutic profession utilising the number of person having psychotherapeutic postgraduate examination and of trainers.
The study examines and compares the requirement of the numbers of training hours of method specific training societies; the changes of the number of psychotherapists and method specific psychotherapists; the changes of the number of trainer degrees and trainers; the rate of trainers and psychotherapists, and the educational requirements of method specific training societies with the growing number of experts having psychotherapeutic exam of the given method between 1995-2006. The study tries to respond, whether there are any correlations between the educational requirements and the number of trained psychotherapists of the given method.

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