Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions
Abstract Objective: Research on the effects of Rogers’s therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. Method: This study looked at both client and therapist mutuality of the R...
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Objective: Research on the effects of Rogers’s therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. Method: This study looked at both client and therapist mutuality of the Rogerian therapeutic conditions and the association between mutuality and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions. Clients (N = 62; mean age = 24.32; 77% female, 23% male) and therapists (N = 12; mean age = 34.32; nine female and three male) rated one another using the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory after the first and third session. Results: Both clients and therapists perceived the quality of the
relationship as improved over time. Client rating of psychological distress (CORE-OM) was lower after session 3 than at session 1 (es = .85, [95% CIs: .67, 1.03]). Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the predictive power of mutually high levels of the therapeutic conditions on treatment progress. The association between client rating of therapist-provided
conditions and treatment progress at session 3 was higher when both clients and therapists rated each other as providing high levels of the therapeutic conditions (R2 change = .073, p < .03). Conclusions: The findings suggest mutuality of Rogers’s therapeutic conditions is related to treatment progress.
Keywords: therapeutic relationship; psychotherapy; mutuality; treatment progress |
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| spelling | nottingham-298982020-05-04T16:43:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29898/ Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions Murphy, David Cramer, Duncan Abstract Objective: Research on the effects of Rogers’s therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. Method: This study looked at both client and therapist mutuality of the Rogerian therapeutic conditions and the association between mutuality and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions. Clients (N = 62; mean age = 24.32; 77% female, 23% male) and therapists (N = 12; mean age = 34.32; nine female and three male) rated one another using the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory after the first and third session. Results: Both clients and therapists perceived the quality of the relationship as improved over time. Client rating of psychological distress (CORE-OM) was lower after session 3 than at session 1 (es = .85, [95% CIs: .67, 1.03]). Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the predictive power of mutually high levels of the therapeutic conditions on treatment progress. The association between client rating of therapist-provided conditions and treatment progress at session 3 was higher when both clients and therapists rated each other as providing high levels of the therapeutic conditions (R2 change = .073, p < .03). Conclusions: The findings suggest mutuality of Rogers’s therapeutic conditions is related to treatment progress. Keywords: therapeutic relationship; psychotherapy; mutuality; treatment progress Taylor & Francis 2014-02-06 Article PeerReviewed Murphy, David and Cramer, Duncan (2014) Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions. Psychotherapy Research, 24 (6). pp. 651-661. ISSN 1050-3307 Rogers's therapeutic relationship conditions; Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10503307.2013.874051 doi:10.1080/10503307.2013.874051 doi:10.1080/10503307.2013.874051 |
| spellingShingle | Rogers's therapeutic relationship conditions; Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory Murphy, David Cramer, Duncan Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions |
| title | Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| title_full | Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| title_fullStr | Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| title_short | Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| title_sort | mutuality of rogers's therapeutic conditions and
treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy
sessions |
| topic | Rogers's therapeutic relationship conditions; Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory |
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