Publications by authors named "John Sommers-Flanagan"

: In this study, we evaluated the effects of a semester-long, multi-component positive psychology course on undergraduate well-being, mental health, and physical health. : Using a quantitative, quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design, participants in the positive psychology course ( = 38) were compared to a control condition ( = 41) on measures of well-being, physical health, and mental health. The positive psychology course included traditional lectures, experiential homework, small group labs, and individual consultations.

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Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the invariance of an oppositional defiant disorder toward adults, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-hyperactivity/impulsivity, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattention, and an Academic Competence factor model between mothers' and fathers' ratings within Brazilian (n = 894), Thai (n = 2,075), and American (n = 817) children with the Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behavior Inventory (G. L. Burns, T.

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Interviewing couples and families can be the most overwhelming and challenging of all clinical situations. The authors present three techniques--radical acceptance, the romantic history, and wishes into goals--that they have found helpful to couples and families and also to clinicians themselves as they cope with their own feelings and reactions while interviewing couples and families.

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In this article, we examine conceptual and practical issues pertaining to relationship boundaries within the helping profession. Although our focus is primarily on relationships between mental health professionals and clients, there are considerable implications for a new approach to ethically structuring and understanding the construct of "required distance" in many human-interactive professions, such as teaching, religious leadership, public administration, and others. We define the concept of boundary as applied to human relationships, provide examples of boundary breaks, and raise questions regarding how to evaluate the significance and morality issues raised by specific boundary breaks.

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