Therapist Effects and Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy

• Authors: Len Sperry
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Research on therapist effectiveness (i.e., therapist effects) is important for spiritually oriented psychotherapy to mature and flourish as a specialty. Therapist effects are described and compared to treatment effects, and then a research-based profile of the effective therapist is sketched. This characterization is similar in both spiritually-oriented psychotherapy and secular psychotherapy, which has no spiritual orientation. The challenge for this specialty is for research to integrate both therapist effects and treatment effects to inform psychotherapy training. This discussion is framed within Alan Bergin‘s (1980) “hope“ that the psychotherapy profession would become more comprehensive and more effective.

Keywords

EN

therapist effectiveness; treatment effects; therapist effects; Allen Bergin; spiritually orientedpsychotherapy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Theology
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2016-01-14

accepted

2016-03-17

online

2016-04-25

Contributors

author

Len Sperry

• Florida Atlantic University, USA

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opth-2016-0024