Michael A. Westerman

811 total citations
47 papers, 609 citations indexed

About

Michael A. Westerman is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Westerman has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 609 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Clinical Psychology, 21 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Westerman's work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (20 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 papers). Michael A. Westerman is often cited by papers focused on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (20 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 papers). Michael A. Westerman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Switzerland. Michael A. Westerman's co-authors include Jeffrey Foote, Arnold Winston, J. S. Tanaka, A. Steven Frankel, Stephen C. Yanchar, J. Christopher Muran, Jeffrey S. Tanaka, Patricia M. Greenfield, Yves de Roten and Jorie M. Colbert‐Getz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Westerman

45 papers receiving 558 citations

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael A. Westerman United States 15 390 300 92 91 89 47 609
Bradford Keeney United States 12 534 1.4× 305 1.0× 138 1.5× 82 0.9× 60 0.7× 55 774
Barbara S. Held United States 14 429 1.1× 452 1.5× 113 1.2× 102 1.1× 62 0.7× 44 833
Joan L. Biever United States 16 475 1.2× 310 1.0× 97 1.1× 104 1.1× 57 0.6× 22 742
John M. Reisman United States 11 212 0.5× 200 0.7× 97 1.1× 80 0.9× 47 0.5× 31 477
Samuel Roll United States 14 189 0.5× 131 0.4× 39 0.4× 112 1.2× 42 0.5× 43 458
H. L. Ansbacher United States 10 244 0.6× 166 0.6× 59 0.6× 87 1.0× 60 0.7× 32 481
Rudolf Dreikurs United States 12 407 1.0× 229 0.8× 118 1.3× 77 0.8× 247 2.8× 51 766
Catherine Raeff United States 13 140 0.4× 237 0.8× 75 0.8× 126 1.4× 227 2.6× 30 506
Sandra Pipp United States 10 195 0.5× 248 0.8× 138 1.5× 70 0.8× 67 0.8× 19 481
Robert D. Myrick United States 14 343 0.9× 418 1.4× 163 1.8× 81 0.9× 256 2.9× 63 843

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Westerman, Michael A. & Kenneth L. Critchfield. (2021). Goals and Design of the Project and Basic Information About Sharon’s Case. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 17(1). 5–18. 2 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2021). The Case of Sharon Considered from the Vantage Point of Interpersonal Defense Theory. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 17(1). 19–41. 3 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2021). Comparing Interpersonal Defense Theory and Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy and Their Views of Sharon’s Case. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 17(1). 63–84. 1 indexed citations
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Colbert‐Getz, Jorie M., Steven L. Baumann, Janet E. Lindsley, et al.. (2016). What's in a Transition? An Integrative Perspective on Transitions in Medical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 28(4). 347–352. 14 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A. & Yves de Roten. (2016). Investigating how interpersonal defense theory can augment understanding of alliance ruptures and resolutions: A theory-building case study.. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 34(1). 13–25. 4 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2011). Defenses in Interpersonal Interaction: Using a Theory-Building Case Study to Develop and Validate the Theory of Interpersonal Defense. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 7(4). 449–476. 6 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A. & Stephen C. Yanchar. (2011). Changing the terms of the debate: Quantitative methods in explicitly interpretive research. Theory & Psychology. 21(2). 139–154. 10 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2011). Conversation analysis and interpretive quantitative research on psychotherapy process and problematic interpersonal behavior. Theory & Psychology. 21(2). 155–178. 20 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (2007). Going Beyond the Internal—External Dichotomy in Clinical Psychology. Theory & Psychology. 17(2). 323–351. 21 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2007). Integrating the Parts of the Biopsychosocial Model. Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology. 14(4). 321–326. 5 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (2005). What is Interpersonal Behavior? A Post-Cartesian Approach to Problematic Interpersonal Patterns and Psychotherapy Process. Review of General Psychology. 9(1). 16–34. 25 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (2001). Triadic Coordination: An Observational Method for Examining Whether Children Are “Caught in the Middle” of Interparental Discord*. Family Process. 40(4). 479–493. 8 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A.. (1998). Reconceptualizing defense as a special type of problematic interpersonal behavior pattern: A fundamental breach by an agent-in-a-situation. ˜The œJournal of mind and behavior. 19(3). 257–302. 15 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (1995). Marital adjustment and children's academic achievement. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 41(4). 453–470. 5 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., Jeffrey Foote, & Arnold Winston. (1995). Change in coordination across phases of psychotherapy and outcome: Two mechanisms for the role played by patients' contribution to the alliance.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 63(4). 672–675. 31 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (1987). Client cooperative interview behavior and outcome in paradoxical and behavioral brief treatment approaches.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 34(1). 99–102. 1 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (1986). The coordinating style construct: An approach to conceptualizing patient interpersonal behavior.. Psychotherapy. 23(4). 540–547. 11 indexed citations
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Westerman, Michael A., et al.. (1986). Development of children's understanding of ambivalence and causal theories of emotions.. Developmental Psychology. 22(5). 655–662. 81 indexed citations
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Greenfield, Patricia M. & Michael A. Westerman. (1978). Some psychological relations between action and language structure. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 7(6). 453–475. 7 indexed citations

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