Empathy and outcome in brief focal dynamic therapy
Abstract
In an attempt to test the hypothesis that therapist empathy is an important variable in successful dynamic therapy, the authors collected outcome measures and empathy ratings in the brief focal dynamic therapy of 59 patients. There was no significant agreement among patients, therapists, and clinical supervisors when they used the same scale to rate therapist empathy for the same sessions. Only the patients' ratings correlated significantly with some of the outcome measures, and they added modest but statistically significant predictive variance on multiple regression analysis. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the traditional mode of supervision of dynamic therapy.
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