Today, I address two articles looking at this tripartite model. I am presenting the earlier one first.

Gelso, C. J., & Samstag, L. W. (2008). A tripartite model of the therapeutic relationship. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Handbook of counseling psychology (4th ed., pp. 267–283). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Here’s the edited abstract:

It is an understatement to say that there are many ways of framing the relationship that exists between a client and therapist in counseling and psychotherapy.

Today, I address two studies related to effects of sexual abuse. First, So, LaVoy, Harmouch & Alfano (2023) published “Objective and Subjective Sleep Patterns and Biomarkers of Stress among Women with a History of Sexual Abuse in Childhood” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs) and sleep disturbance into adulthood.

Today, I present a single article but one that I think is important. Eriksen & Cormier (2024) published “Considering Ethical Obligations to Overcome Stagnant Psychological Report-Writing Practices” in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.  Here are the abstract and impact statements with slight editing and some information in bold:

Psychologists have a duty of care to provide accurate evaluation results for the clients they serve. This expectation also includes communicating the results and related treatment recommendations in an understandable manner for the referred client, as well as those involved in their care.

The number of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders has been steadily increasing. Today, I present two studies related to children’s functioning in school. First, Pereira, Hamsho, Susilo, Famolare, Blacher & Eisenhower (2023) published “Longitudinal Associations Between Internalizing Behaviors and Social Skills for Autistic Students During the Early School Years” in School Psychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Autistic students experience greater social difficulties and heightened internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiety, depression, withdrawal)

Today, I examine three studies related to intimate partner violence (IPV), looking first at effects of trauma exposure. Stein, Galano, Grogan-Kaylor, Clark, Hall & Graham-Bermann (2023) published “Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Across 8 Years: Contributions of the posttraumatic stress symptom domains” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.  Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Although much remains unknown about what creates risk for women’s intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization across time, trauma exposure and mental health are likely contributors.

Professionals today more frequently encounter clients who come from immigrant families. Today, I present two studies that offer different perspectives on the challenges such clients may face. First, Eltanamly, Leijten, Roekel & Overbeek (2023) published, “Postmigration Stress Compromises Refugee Parents’ Self-Efficacy and Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: An experience sampling study” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract:

As we move toward being a majority minority nation, it’s important to continue to examine ways to reduce racial bias. Here, I present three studies that may be helpful. First, Xu et al. (2023) published “White Children's Prosocial Behavior Toward White Versus Black Peers: The Role of Children's Effortful Control and Parents' Implicit Racial Attitudes” in Child Development. Here’s the edited abstract:

White children's effortful control (EC), parents' implicit racial attitudes, and their interaction were examined as predictors of children's prosocial behavior toward White versus Black recipients

Loneliness has been of considerable concern, especially since the COVID epidemic. These two studies may be helpful to those who work with clients who report being lonely. First, Lemay, Jr., Cutri & Teneva (2024) published “How Loneliness Undermines Close Relationships and Persists Over Time: The role of perceived regard and care” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  Here’s the edited abstract:

Depression has been seen as increasing across the lifespan. Today, I present three recent studies I found helpful. First, Hu, Mizrahi Lakan, Kalokerinos & Tamir (2024) published “Stuck with the Foot on the Pedal: Depression and motivated emotion regulation in daily life” in Emotion. Here’s the edited abstract:

I have been writing about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) since the very beginning of this blog. Here, I look at research on adults. First, Turgoose & Murphy (2024) published “Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Clinical Sample of U.K. Military Veterans” in Traumatology. Here’s a highly edited summary:

This is another long post with studies utilizing diverse methodologies. First, Frei et al. (2022) published “Can You Find It? Novel oddity detection task for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease” in Neuropsychology. The edited abstract and impact statements follow:

We aimed to develop a measure to specifically assess the functioning of the perirhinal cortex (PRC), a brain structure affected very early in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology.

Many researchers have observed that the sibling relationship is often the longest relationship an individual has across the lifespan. Here, I present three articles addressing the complexity of sibling relationships. First, van Berkel, Groeneveld, van der Pol, Linting & Mesman (2022) published “Growing Up Together: Differences between siblings in the development of compliance separating within-family and between-family effects” in Developmental Psychology.  Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

This is a longer than usual post because I am presenting four recent studies of sleep. First,

Palmer et al. (2023) published “Sleep Loss and Emotion: A systematic review and meta-analysis of over 50 years of experimental research” in Psychological Bulletin. The first sentence had my attention:

In a largely sleep-deprived society, quantifying the effects of sleep loss on emotion is critical for promoting psychological health.

Today, I am again looking at parenting of infants. Girod, Leerkes & Zvara (2023) published “Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Maternal Sensitivity to Distress: Negative attributions during the transition to parenthood” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

Childhood maltreatment is a predictor of subsequent parenting behaviors; however, the mechanisms explaining this association have been understudied.

Here, I present two studies of the effects of prenatal experience on later child development. First, Tung et al. (2023) published “Prenatal Stress and Externalizing Behaviors in Childhood and Adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis” in Psychological Bulletin. Here are the edited abstract and impact statement:

Today, I present two recent studies of the utility of the MMPI. First, Ambrose, Giarratano, McCue, Brand & Dalenberg (2023) published “Utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in Differentiating Genuine from Feigned Dissociative Identity Disorder.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Today, I look at three studies of the beginning of therapy. First, Mitchell, Mitchell, Shannon, Dorahy & Hanna (2023) published “Effects of Baseline Psychological Symptom Severity on Dropout from Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A meta-analysis” in Traumatology. Here is the edited abstract:

Today, I am examining three studies of adults, each examining trajectories. First, Kim, McInnis & Sperry (2024) published “Longitudinal Dynamics between Anxiety and Depression in Bipolar Spectrum Disorders” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Anxiety and depression are common among individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs), with anxiety being a risk factor for depression and vice versa.

Sometimes, I present studies that I find disturbing and this one may be a nice follow up to the last one on growth mindset. Matthes, Schneider & Preckel (2023) published “The Relation Between Prior Knowledge and Learning in Regular and Gifted Classes: A multigroup latent growth curve analysis” in Journal of Educational Psychology. Here are the abstract and impact statements

The relation between prior knowledge and learning has been investigated in many studies.

I’ve written before about growth mindset. Jiang, Fang & Mueller (2023) published “Growth Mindset: An umbrella for protecting socially stressed adolescents’ life satisfaction” in School Psychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Research suggests that growth mindset shows positive effects on adolescents’ academic achievement, especially in overcoming academic-related setbacks. It remains unclear, however, how growth mindset functions in the presence of social stress, a risk factor for adolescent mental health.