Abstract
While self-disclosure plays a prominent role in the development and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship, most marriage and family therapy clinical research fails to include measures of self-disclosure. A factor analysis of Chelune's (1976) Self Disclosure Situations Survey (SDSS) reduces the number of items in this measure from 20 to six. Researchers are encouraged to consider conducting clinical research with specific attention to the construct of self-disclosure. The revised SDSS could easily be added as part of the self-report information collected in clinical studies.
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Harris, S.M., Dersch, C.A. & Mittal, M. Look Who's Talking: Measuring Self-Disclosure in MFT. Contemporary Family Therapy 21, 405–415 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021968517320
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