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- Title
The Effect of Tomm's Therapeutic Questioning Styles on Therapeutic Alliance: A Clinical Analog Study.
- Authors
DOZIER, RICHARD M.; HICKS, MARY W.; CORNILLE, THOMAS A.; PETERSON, GARY W.
- Abstract
Tomm (1988) suggests that circular and reflexive questions tend to elicit feelings of freedom/acceptance whereas lineal and strategic questions usually trigger feelings of judgment/constraint. Employing an analog methodology, each of Tomm's four questioning styles was portrayed in the form of a 5-minute videotaped intake scenario. Forty family triads with a mother, father, and adolescent son were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions with ten families each. Each condition involved viewing one of four questioning style scenarios. All participants (N = 120 individuals—40 mothers, 40 fathers, and 40 adolescent sons) completed the Family Therapy Alliance Scale (FTAS; Pinsof & Catherall, 1986) and a validity-check instrument. The results indicated that circular and reflexive questioning styles elicited significantly higher (p <.001) alliance scores on the FTAS than did either lineal or strategic questions. Implications for the use of different types of questions in family therapy are discussed.
- Subjects
FAMILY psychotherapy; GROUP psychotherapy; FAMILY relations; THEORY of self-knowledge; FAMILY therapists; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Family Process, 1998, Vol 37, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1998.00189.x