Between Therapist and Client

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Similarity of modality structure between therapists and clients has already been demonstrated to be an important predictor of the establishment of rapport in early psychotherapy. 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. Thus, an additional strength of the SPI is that it can be used to roughly measure the nature and severity of a client's clinical symptoms. As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalyst limited their therapeutic effectiveness - and how their recent reconciliation has opened up exciting new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients, pointing to a promising new period in the history of psychotherapy. Highly recommended for all trainees and those with an interest in choosing the right kind of therapy for themselves.

Strong support for this position comes from studies of length of psychotherapy as a function of client–therapist similarity. So I guess this means it was written for trainees like me and it put me to sleep several times (just as basic Freud did). In a way I felt as if the author reconciles the different views and takes out the most of each view. Regardless of the mechanism underlying the process, modality similarity between therapists and clients does appear to have a positive effect on the effectiveness of psychotherapy outcome.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. Although initially 45 therapists agreed to participate, a total of only 19 therapist–client pairs did participate in this study.

In other cases, subjects dropped out of the study because treatment goals were met earlier than session 12. Most analysts abandoned the role of detached and silent, which is both a relieve for themselves and the patient. Using the D″ 2 statistic, the larger the obtained value, the greater the degree of dissimilarity (and thus the lesser the degree of similarity).

People who score high on the Behaviors modality scale are generally described as active, energetic, and busy. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In the regression analysis, a significant relationship was observed between therapist–client similarity on the SPI and outcome as determine by pretreatment to posttreatment GSI scores ( R = 0. The reliability and validity of SPI were demonstrated in a study by Landes, 26 who showed internal consistency and test-retest reliability, as well as concurrent validity, for the Affects, Sensations, Cognitions, and Interpersonal Relations modality scales through correlations with the MBTI.