The purpose of this article is to examine whether therapy process and outcome are
influenced by a client-therapist ethnicity, language, or gender match. A review of research in …

3 clients to 'defer'to their therapists (Rennie, 1998 see Box 7.2) means that an anonymous,
independent examination can sometimes give a more accurate and reliable picture. In this …

How has the therapeutic relationship been understood? What are its essential ingredients?
What are the characteristics, or personal qualities, of the therapist and of the client that play …

Archival records were used to compare the therapy process in 30 brief psychodynamic and
32 cognitive-behavioral therapies. Verbatim transcripts of 186 treatment sessions were rated …

Language is one of the most important “tools” of psychotherapists. The working mechanisms
of verbal therapeutic techniques, however, are still marginally understood. In part, this is due …

This essential guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on
a research? based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments …

Parents, referral sources, and even therapists wonder whether the gender and racial match
between therapists and patients contributes to poorer alliances and treatment dropout. Six …

The author's basic goal in preparing this new, sixth edition of Half the Human Experience is
to provide a text on the psychology of women written in a way so that it is accessible to …

OBJECTIVE: This research extends a series of studies that have examined the process of
psychotherapy. The authors hypothesized that manualized regimens of psychotherapy …

This study examined psychotherapy process in the National Institute of Mental Health
Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. Transcripts of brief interpersonal …