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Effects Of Gender, Race And Age Matching On Client Ratings Of The Therapeutic Alliance, Campbell Griffin
Effects Of Gender, Race And Age Matching On Client Ratings Of The Therapeutic Alliance, Campbell Griffin
Scripps Senior Theses
Identity matching between therapists and clients has been shown to affect the processes and the outcomes of psychotherapy. A quasi-experimental study will be conducted in which patients (n=300) in identity matched or identity mismatched therapeutic pairs will report their perception of the therapeutic alliance and their therapists’ engagement with multicultural orientation framework (MCO) variables. This study is expected to find that matching by gender, matching by race, and matching by age are all significantly correlated with participant ratings of the therapeutic alliance, such that matching predicts higher ratings of the therapeutic alliance across treatment. The results of this study will …