Recent evidence suggests that psychotherapists may not increase in effectiveness over
accrued experience in naturalistic settings, even settings that provide access to patients' …

Objective: Psychotherapy researchers have long questioned whether increased therapist
experience is linked to improved outcomes. Despite numerous cross-sectional studies …

Little empirical research exists about highly effective psychotherapists, and none about the
factors that mediate the acquisition and maintenance of superior performance skills (eg …

Significant therapist variability has been demonstrated in both psychotherapy outcomes and
process (eg, the working alliance). In an attempt to provide prevalence estimates of …

Objective: To investigate the variability and stability of psychotherapists' effectiveness and
the implications of this differential effectiveness for quality improvement in a managed care …

The increasing emphasis on therapist accountability and empirical demonstration of
psychotherapeutic treatment effectiveness points to the need for practicing therapists to …

This study examined data collected on over 5,000 clients seen by 71 therapists over a 6‐
year period in a University Counseling Center. Clients were given the Outcome …

Experience is often regarded as a prerequisite of high performance. In the field of
psychotherapy, research has yielded inconsistent results regarding the association between …

Evidence-based practice is increasingly discussed and practised within the NHS.
Psychotherapy research clearly has a part to play in informing such practice, but the differing …

This chapter presents a model for psychotherapy that is based on evidence related to what
is known about how psychotherapy works and what is known about effective therapists. This …