Between Therapist and Client

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Thus, even if therapists choose the same techniques and practice psychotherapy exactly the same regardless of their philosophical orientation, it appears that the techniques will be presented more clearly, be more “on target,” and have a greater degree of efficacy when therapists and clients are more similar in their modality orientation.

Trainees of counselling/psychotherapy will find this so useful as it gives an in depth insight to psychodynamic meets humanistic as well as providing a flow in the narrative that makes it one of the best books I have read as it engages the reader taking you on a journey and providing deep insight to important theories of our time. Given the high dropout rate encountered in this study, some post hoc analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between therapist–client similarity on the SPI and dropout, as well as between several of the demographic variables and dropout. Just enough history to give context and plenty of material for thought and reflection outside the pages.Uncorrected raw SPI modality scores have been found to be predictive of clients' symptomatology, as measured by BSI symptom scores, but SPI modality scores corrected for elevation and scatter have not.

Other weaknesses of this study concern the small sample size and the fact that most clinicians were still in training. Overall I find that Kahn sets a realistic and honest view of how the therapeutic relationship should look like and which factors are important, he does that in a not too rigid way, which gives space for the particular character of a therapist himself. In psychotherapy, clients must be able to learn something novel and different from their therapists that they would not ordinarily learn on their own. When analyses of variance were computed exploring the relationships with the length of treatment (the number of sessions attended by the client), there was a surprising finding that the age of the therapist ( F = 6.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.