One key implication of recent theory and research on the therapy relationship is that:
a. therapists will increasingly be trained in how to become authentic chameleons.
b. therapists will be expected to manage equivalently well a broader range of client relational styles.
c. therapists will be have research evidence to back up their tendency to blame clients for therapy failures.
d. therapists will be able to more clearly tailor therapy relationships to match client styles.
Question 2
The APA Interdivisional Task Force on Evidence-Based Therapy Relationships concluded, among several things, that:
a. the therapy relationship makes a modest contribution to therapy outcome and is more often than not redundant with the type of treatment.
b. that the most critical elements of an effective therapy relationship include the directiveness of the therapist.
c. practice guidelines should limit their attention to those specific factors that are most likely to resolve client problems.
d. evidence-based practice guidelines that do not address the therapy relationship risk being seriously incomplete and potentially misleading