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Personality integration and successful outcome in infividual psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Anchor Kenneth N.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<245::aid-jclp2270330156>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , personality , outcome (game theory) , personality disorders , clinical psychology , matching (statistics) , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , mathematical economics
Successful and unsuccessful outcomes in 24 therapy dyads were analyzed according to client‐therapist personality integration (pi). Results indicated that successful outcome was most likely to occur when both client and therapist were high pi. Failure was most frequent among mixed sex dyads with discrepant pi differences. Implications for effective client‐therapist matching were discussed.