During the early stage of therapy, more severely maladjusted clients elicit higher levels of therapist complementarity¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2 · i2 medium
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q2 i2 Early-stage therapist complementarity was directly and significantly related to degree of manifest client maladjustment (rank correlation r' = +.51, p < .02), independent of outcome. → Dietzel 1974

Evidence¶

Dietzel 1974¶

Dietzel, C. S.; Abeles, Norman. (1974). Client-Therapist Complementarity and Therapeutic Outcome. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED091646 doi:10.1037/h0076731

q2 · i2 · associational · r1

Correlational analysis relating each client's maladjustment index (distance of the early-session behavioral coordinate from the Circumplex grid center) to early-stage therapist complementarity. The study reports a "rank correlation coefficient r' = +.51 (p < .02)", supporting the prediction that severely maladjusted clients elicit more complementarity.

"rank correlation coefficient r' = +.51 (p < .02) was obtained.This significant correlation supported Hypothesis V which proposed that more severely maladjqsted clients would elicit higher levels of complementarity from their therapists."

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