Papers by Luciano L'Abate
Relational Competence Theory, 2010
Relational Competence Theory, 2010
L’Abate, L., Cusinato, M., Maino, E., Colesso, W., Scilletta, C. (2010). Relational competence theory: Research and mental health applications. New York: Springer Science. ISBN: 978-1-4419-5664-4., 2010
We współczesnym świecie relacje międzyludzkie stanowią zarówno źródło satysfakcji, jak i nastręcz... more We współczesnym świecie relacje międzyludzkie stanowią zarówno źródło satysfakcji, jak i nastręczają wiele problemów. Ten obszar ludzkiego funkcjonowania staje się zatem ciekawym polem do zagospodarowania tak w badaniach naukowych, jak i w praktyce psychologicznej. Naprzeciw tym oczekiwaniom wychodzi kolejna książka profesora Luciano L'Abate (ze współautorami) Relational Competence Theory: Research and Mental Health Applications. Jako cel Profesor L. L'Abate i współautorzy uznali opracowanie i zaktualizowanie badań dotyczących kontekstualnych i rozwojowych teorii kompetencji relacyjnych (Relational Competence Theory -RCT), dotyczących relacji intymnych i nie-intymnych. Już sam cel książki zachęca do zapoznania się z nią, zwłaszcza ze względu na proponowany aspekt rozwojowy.
The American Journal of Family Therapy, 2012
American journal of psychotherapy
This paper illustrates how programmed writing lessons to be completed as homework assignments can... more This paper illustrates how programmed writing lessons to be completed as homework assignments can be used in conjunction with traditional verbal psychotherapy. Each patient was involved in a symbolically enmeshed relationship. Special benefits for patients from the combination of programmed writing lessong with traditional psychotherapy were: (1) increased couple communication; (2) possibly more rapid change; (3) possibly shorter-term therapy; (4) increased forgotten trauma discovery; (5) and increased explicit and specific instructions. Patients were informed from the outset that the use of programmed writing lessons would or might: (1) help the therapist get a better idea of what was going on in regard to the development, values, rules, etc. of their symbiotic relationships; (2) decrease the time spent in therapy, and (3) encourage self-realization through self-directed assignments between sessions. For psychotherapists there are advantages of: (1) putting the responsibility for change on the shoulders of patients rather than on themselves; (2) using programs of theoretical and therapeutic approaches that may not be well known to the therapist; (3) reducing the frequency of sessions and administering written homework assignments when the therapist is on vacation; and (4) increasing the number of patients that can be seen for unit of therapist's time.
American journal of psychotherapy
The use of writing in psychotherapy is relatively new and may have meager empirical support. A ra... more The use of writing in psychotherapy is relatively new and may have meager empirical support. A rationale for the use of writing in psychotherapy is given in terms of splitting therapeutic skills into relationship and structuring skills. Writing is one application of structuring skills to increase the therapist's influence outside of the office and into the home or workplace. There are at least four different degrees of writing possible according to structure: open, focused, guided, and programmed. Examples from the available literature are given. Even though, its impact on therapeutic outcome has yet to be fully realized beyond the experience of few clinicians. Pennebacker's research contribution in the use of writing is highlighted to support its use in psychotherapy. He found that students who wrote on traumatic topics for 20 minutes a day for four days showed improved physiological reactions and fewer physical symptoms at three-month follow-up than students who wrote about trivial topics.
... Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide Glen Waller, Helen Cordery, Emm... more ... Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide Glen Waller, Helen Cordery, Emma Corstorophine, Hendrick Hinrichsen, Rachel Lawson, Victoria ... runs through the book, yet compassion and understanding are also themes and the work of Linehan is discussed ...
I am not an economist in any way, shape, or form. This is why I could not muster enough influence... more I am not an economist in any way, shape, or form. This is why I could not muster enough influence or traction to recruit or seduce a real, qualified, honest-to-goodness economist to collaborate with one chapter in this volume. However, I felt that this volume would not be complete without a chapter in this discipline. Consequently, I had to make do, in complete humility and admitted ignorance, with the help of Karen Viars, with whatever I could find by cross-indexing paradigms with economics. Then I tried to make sense of whatever information I gathered through summaries that I reproduced here with complete bibliographic acknowledgments. Whether all these summaries should be within quotes because they are essentially downloaded with few cosmetic changes is a decision that I made after discussing with two colleagues who are versed in the ethics of citing published research. The reader should understand that perhaps the whole chapter should be within quotes.
major system in existence. Influenced by the discipline of family sociology, that existence raise... more major system in existence. Influenced by the discipline of family sociology, that existence raised the question about why in psychology we did not have a specialty in "family psychology". Furthermore, why was there no theory to trying to understand behavior and relationships within the family system, except for empirically untestable psychoanalytic formulations? At the beginning, influenced by the individual, intrapsychic paradigm, understanding and helping the individual in the family was the principal focus of the theory. From there, various revisions of the theory focused on popular terms, such as "Self", "Personality," and eventually "Family". However, even that latter term was not satisfactory because in USA only 25% of all domiciles are composed by the traditional, sociological notion of the intact marital couples and two children of opposite gender. The other 75% include various combinations and permutation of people living under the same roof linked by emotional, ethnic, financial, and practical ties. Since the notion of family-qua-family was no longer tenable, the notion of "intimate" relationships was introduced as a substitute for the notion of "family". Intimate, communal relationships are characterized by close, committed, interdependent, and durable bonds. Non-intimate, agentic relationships are characterized by inadequacy and lack of closeness, commitment, interdependence, and duration. Furthermore, most psychological models about personality, marriage, and the family have produced a plethora of highly validated measures that are, however, specific only to either personalities, or couples, or families. Measures to evaluate individuals in a non-relational vacuum produced a veritable theoretical and empirical Tower of Babel in personality science. This Tower of Babel essentially considered personality in a relational vacuum, without any intimate or non-intimate relationships while marriages and families were viewed without personalities. There were essentially three different theoretical and empirical tracks without any connection among them. We needed a theory of human relationships that would go above and beyond personalities, couples, and families, a very ambitious but exciting undertaking that has been going on for the last half century. Consequently, collaborators at the University of Padova, lead by the co-author of this chapter, Mario Cusinato and his students (Cusinato & L'Abate, 2012; agreed that we were interested in expanding and evaluating the validity a theory about human, relational competence that could and should be empirically evaluated and possibly validated. Eventually (L'Abate & Cusinato, 2007), we realized that in order to make sense of all the models that encompassed the undeniable complexity of RCT, we had to fall back and resort on Max Weber's century-old notion of hierarchy, as present in most charitable, educational, industrial, military, and religious organizations. Hence, we arrived at the hierarchy presented in below.
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The purpose of this introduction is to lay out the background for the chapters in this volume. Th... more The purpose of this introduction is to lay out the background for the chapters in this volume. The major issue discussed in this chapter, within the whole context of this volume, concerns the role of paradigms in the construction of any scientific or even artistic theory. What does it take to make a theory artistically and scientifically acceptable? Consequently, the first part of this chapter will cover how we should view the whole scientific enterprise. The second part will cover how paradigms need to be included within a hierarchical framework that clarifies how paradigms are related to theories, models, and dimensions (L’Abate, 2009a, 2009b).
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