Individual differences in client reactions to counseling and psychotherapy: A challenge for research |
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| Authors: | Jack Martin |
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| Institution: | Counseling Psychology Research Group , University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario , N6G 1G7 , Canada |
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| Abstract: | Recent research is reviewed that suggests extensive individual differences in how clients respond to therapeutic interventions and therapist response modes. Three research strategies are proposed as parts of a therapeutic science that aims at both nomothetic generalizations and explications of idiographic meanings, while simultaneously confronting conceptual and methodological complexities arising from client individual differences in response to counseling. |
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