Differences between more and less effective psychotherapists: a study of therapist variables
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v1i4.645Keywords:
psychoterapeutic, characteristic, therapeutic orientationAbstract
This study examined differences between more and less effective trained psychotherapists. Therapists were assigned to one of two groups depending on wether the preponderance of their patients' changes in symptomatology indicated more or less improvement over the course of therapy. Therapist variables included emotional adjustment, relationship skills, elicting patient involvement, credibility, directiviness, and theoretical orientation. Less effective therapists were revealed to have lower levels of empathic understanding, to rate their patients as more involved in treatment, and to rate themselves as more supportive than the more effective therapists. Less effective also valued comfort and stimulation significantly more and valued intellectual goals significantly less than did more effective therapists.
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