This chapter reviews the historical and current trends in the study of therapist effects. We
discuss statistical methods for investigating therapist effects, with a primary focus and …

Therapist responsiveness is defined as therapist behavior being influenced by emerging
context. Responsiveness is ubiquitous and creates serious problems for a ballistic, cause …

In a university counseling center sample of 247 clients who were treated by 50 therapists,
we retrospectively examined the association between client ratings of their therapists' …

Die zweite Auflage des Titels" The Great Psychotherapy Debate" von Bruce E. Wampold und
Zac E. Imel liegt nun in der deutschsprachigen Adaption von Christoph Flückiger vor. Das …

Objective: This study examined whether therapists' facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS)
would prospectively predict the outcomes of therapies that occurred more than one year …

It has been argued that psychotherapy is a profession without any expertise (Shanteau,
1992). We examine the validity of this claim, reviewing the literature on expertise, clinical …

Objective: Three recent meta-analyses have made the claim, albeit with some caveats, that
cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) are superior to other psychotherapies, in general or …

With the steadily growing importance of psychotherapeutic care, there is also an increasing
need for high-quality training. We analyze the literature published between 2009 and 2022 …

In this chapter, we address the question of why certain therapists are more effective than
others from a different perspective. We do not propose that particular actions or strategies …

This chapter begins with the assumption that there are therapist effects, and then goes on to
address the next obvious question of who the best therapists are and what they are doing in …