During the middle stage of therapy, successful therapists respond at a significantly lower level of complementarity than unsuccessful therapists¶

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q2 i? In the middle ('work') stage of therapy, the successful outcome group showed significantly lower therapist complementarity than the unsuccessful group, supporting the anti-complementary stance hypothesis. → 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

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Stage-wise comparison of Complementarity Index values for the two outcome groups (10 dyads each) from rated early, middle, and later session segments. The middle-stage contrast reached significance at "t = 3.026, p < .005", with successful therapists' mean of 42.00 versus unsuccessful therapists' 53.39 as printed in Table 4.

"During the middle stage of therapy, successful therapists responded at a significantly lower level of complementarity when compared to unsuccessful therapists (see Table 4 and Figure 2; t = 3.026, p < .005)."

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