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This study uses the archives from the Ohio University Helping Relationship Study (OUHRS) with hopes of understanding how therapist Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS) influence client emotional experiencing (Klein, Mathieu, Gendlin, & Kiesler, 1969). The OUHRS sought to differentiate the effects of specific or technical skills, which are often associated with training programs, with more general interpersonal skills. The OUHRS study compared psychotherapy outcomes of trained (students with 2+ years in the Ohio University clinical psychology Ph.D. program) and untrained (graduate students from other disciplines) therapists, who also differed in their level of Facilitative Interpersonal Skills (FIS). The FIS measure encompasses the primary interpersonal skills that should contribute to outcome regardless of the particular orientation of the therapist. The results of the OUHRS showed that therapist level of training had no effect on outcome while therapist FIS did.The current study predicts that high FIS therapists will facilitate higher client emotional experiencing. Eight-minute segments from sessions 2, 3, 4, and 6 were coded using the Experiencing Scale for every client in the study. Some of the results were not as predicted. Therapist FIS did not influence client experiencing. Therapist level of training, which did not significantly influence outcome in the original study, did significantly influence client experiencing. Possible implications of these findings for the therapeutic process and therapist training are discussed. |
