Effectiveness of a Conflict Resolution Training Program in Changing Graduate Students Style of Managing Conflict with their Faculty Advisors

AbstractThis study evaluated a training program in conflict resolution based on the Conflict Resolution Model (Littlefield, Love, Peck, & Wertheim, 1993). Forty-eight participants were recruited from a secondary school in Hobart and allocated to a trained or untrained condition. Trained participants received twelve hours of conflict resolution training over a 3-week period. During the assessment phase, participants were tested in one of three dyad types (trained-trained, trained-untrained, or untrained-untrained) and interacted to make a joint recommendation on an issue about which they held opposing views. The interactions were audiotaped and rated by two raters on four process measures and an outcome measure. Skills of porticipants were also assessed with a questionnaire. Significant increases were found for the trained participants on all measures. These results support the use of the Conflict Resolution Model for training programs.

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Preparing Anesthesiology Residents for Operating Room Communication Challenges: A New Approach for Conflict Resolution Training

Anesthesia & Analgesia ◽

10.1213/ane.0000000000005561 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

David J. Birnbach ◽

Lisa F. Rosen ◽

Maureen Fitzpatrick ◽

Ilya Shekhter ◽

Kristopher L. Arheart

Keyword(s):

Conflict Resolution ◽

Operating Room ◽

New Approach ◽

Communication Challenges ◽

Conflict Resolution Training

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Solitude, Silence, and the Training of Psychotherapists: A Preliminary Study

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/009164710102900103 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 22-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeffrey B. Vanmeter ◽

Mark R. McMinn ◽

Leslie D. Bissell ◽

Mahinder Kaur ◽

Jana D. Pressley

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Training Program ◽

Graduate Training ◽

Total Duration ◽

Spiritual Disciplines ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Wait List Control ◽

Striking Increase ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Research Questions

The spiritual disciplines of silence and solitude have long been practiced within the contemplative Christian tradition as a means of character transformation and experiencing God. Do these disciplines affect the use of silence in psychotherapy for Christian clinicians in a graduate training program? Nineteen graduate students in clinical psychology were assigned to a wait-list control condition or a training program involving the disciplines of solitude and silence, and the groups were reversed after the first cohort completed the spiritual disciplines training. One group, which was coincidentally comprised of more introverted individuals, demonstrated a striking increase in the number of silent periods and total duration of silence during simulated psychotherapy sessions during the period of training. The other group, more extraverted in nature, did not show significant changes in therapeutic silence during the training. These results cause us to pose research questions regarding the interaction of personality characteristics and spiritual disciplines in training Christian psychotherapists.

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