1. The Therapeutic Relationship
Is It Important?

2. Therapy can be tough!!!

3. Not just for
the client...

4. but also for the
therapist.

5. Therapist balance many things during sessions.

6. From their own thoughts
(countertransference;
Marmosh, Gelso, Markin,
Majors, Mallory, & Choi,
2009)...

7. to their
clients needs.

8. How can therapists be
effective with so much to worry about?

9. The answer is...

10. The Therapeutic Relationship!!!

11. This is simply the attitudes and feeling expressed...

12. by both client and therapist (Norcross & Lambert, 2011)

13. Client outcomes are directly correlated with the relationship (Coco, Gullo, Prestano, & Gelso, 2011)

14. A good relationship generally means better outcomes (Norcross & Lambert, 2011)

15. An unestablished therapeutic relationship on the other hand...

16. renders even the most
effective therapeutic
techniques useless
(Norcross & Lambert, 2012)

17. What makes a good relationship, though?

18. Genuineness
and realism
(Coco et al., 2011)

19. Believing that the relationship is genuine is important...

20. and having an accurate view (realism) is also important...

21. for both the client
and the therapist...

22. early in the relationship ...

23. but only if therapy was
conducted over several
sessions (Gullo, Coco, &
Gelso, 2012).

24. What about clients
that only needed brief
psychotherapy?

25. Can they
be helped?

26. Clients that conclude therapy after only a few sessions...

27. achieve better outcomes
by completing tasks
(Gullo et al, 2012).

28. How does the
relationship form,
though?

29. Clients perception of
the relationship
is crucial.

30. Stronger initial relationships correlate with better mental health outcomes.

31. The therapist’s views of the
relationship when beginning therapy...

32. was not correlated with
mental health outcomes,
however (Gelso, Kivlighan,
Busa-Knepp, Spiegel, Ain,
Hummel, Ma, & Markin, 2012).

33. Therapist’s rating are not
unimportant, however
(Coco et al., 2011).

34. Therapists’ initial ratings were consistently in the middle (Gelso et al., 2012).

35. The increase in therapists’
relationship with clients...

36. is highly responsible for
psychotherapy success
(Gelso et al., 2012; Norcross
& Lambert, 2011).

37. Following therapy’s conclusion, therapists’ perception of the relationship...

38. was positively correlated with mental health outcomes (Marmosh et al

39. Is anything else involved?

40. If clients
suffer from
anxiety cause
by relationships...

41. a strong relationship
is unlikely to develop
(Marmosh et al., 2011).