Between Therapist and Client

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However, to gain further insight into the nuances of a client's modality functioning, the 35-item SPI was created. Although disparate views have been published, the theory underlying multimodal therapy suggests that therapist–client similarity would be most advantageous for treatment outcome and client satisfaction.

The implications of this finding for marital and other interpersonal relationships are that when individuals share dominant modalities, their communication will most likely be clearer and a more productive interpersonal relationship will result. The Chapter about obstructive (complimentary) and useful (concordant) countertransference confused me. Such more detailed analyses and explorations may provide even more understanding of the phenomenon of therapist–client matching. Because only 19 outcome packets were collected, it was determined that there were insufficient data for these nine separate analyses. Among the dimensions of compatibility discussed by Beutler and Clarkin are demographics, interpersonal response patterns, personal beliefs, and attributions.Most analysts abandoned the role of detached and silent, which is both a relieve for themselves and the patient. When therapists and clients are more similar in their modality orientation, there appears to be a concomitant improvement in psychotherapy outcome associated with this degree of similarity. The reader is referred to Cronbach and Glesser 38 for a more in-depth description of the process and rationale for the use of this statistic. In other cases, subjects dropped out of the study because treatment goals were met earlier than session 12. D. These seven spheres of functioning—Behaviors, Affects, Sensory, Imagery, Cognitions, Interpersonal, and “Drugs”/biological factors—either singly or in combination can explain fully the realm of human experience and functioning.

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.demonstrated that the clearer and more consistent the communication between the therapist and client, the more positive the treatment outcome. As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalyts 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. In Between Therapist and Client, Michael Kahn explores what is perhaps the most important aspect of therapy -- the therapist-client relationship. I missed mentioning and describing all of the four major psychoanalytic paradigms: drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, and self psychology .

And what is a treatment theory other than a template with which to make choices about technique selection? When therapists met with their next new client for the first time, they were instructed to explain the study and seek the client's consent for participation.Therapist–client similarity was determined through administration of the Multimodal Structural Profile Inventory, Version 3. A good exploration of the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, explained simply but introducing profound issues about getting the right balance between counsellors/psychotherapists and clients i.