Between Therapist and Client

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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. Once therapists agreed to participate in this study, they were sent packets containing all the materials they would need. Khan moves from the medical/mechanistic style to one focused on the relationship between therapist and client as a main agent of change. Regardless of the therapist's philosophical orientation, it is the application of administered techniques that results in change and symptomatic relief. Clients were also informed that participation in this study would not alter the course or form of treatment that they would receive.

The position favoring similarity appears to have evolved from observations that therapist and client demographic and personality characteristics such as gender, race, personality, and mental health have a “profound impact” on psychotherapeutic process and outcome. ie: the very relationship between the client and therapist is the most ripe place for curiosity and analysis.The study of the effects of therapist–client matching of personality variables is not new to the science of psychotherapy. An accessible introduction to the rational of integrative therapy and how humanistic and psychoanalytic schools of thought came to meet somewhere in the middle. Transference is an enormous source for discovery and learning and it seems very effective to deal with it in the session room.

The Multimodal SPI 19 , 22 – 24 , 26 , 28 , 36 is a 35-item self-report questionnaire that asks clients to rate their perceptions of their modality functioning according to a seven-point Likert scale.Highly recommended for all trainees and those with an interest in choosing the right kind of therapy for themselves. The more similar the therapist and client, the lower the degree of reported psychopathology at psychotherapy outcome. In Kohut’s view there are three strong needs that must be fulfilled to develop the self fully: the need to be ‘mirrored’ , the need to idealize and the need to be like others. And what is a treatment theory other than a template with which to make choices about technique selection?