Correlations between the BSI and the Symptom Checklist–90 (SCL-90) are high enough that the BSI can be considered interchangeable with the SCL90, sharing the same reliability and validity characteristics. In psychotherapy, clients must be able to learn something novel and different from their therapists that they would not ordinarily learn on their own. When therapists and clients are more similar in their modality orientation, there appears to be a concomitant improvement in psychotherapy outcome associated with this degree of similarity. I've been taught that complementary countertransference can also be very useful (therapeut can feel how e.

Clients were also informed that participation in this study would not alter the course or form of treatment that they would receive. The reliability and validity of SPI were demonstrated in a study by Landes, 26 who showed internal consistency and test-retest reliability, as well as concurrent validity, for the Affects, Sensations, Cognitions, and Interpersonal Relations modality scales through correlations with the MBTI. found that when therapists and clients agreed in their recollections of which session events were important, psychotherapy sessions were generally rated as more effective by both clients and therapists.

Kahn describes the various approaches to the therapeutic relationship delineated by Freud, Rogers, Gill, and Kohut, and then does a great job integrating all of the disparate threads into a cohesive set of guidelines for therapists. It has also been suggested that client–therapist similarity aids in the genesis and maintenance of rapport. Therefore, therapists who are too similar to their clients will be unable to present a different perspective or any new learning.

D. These seven spheres of functioning—Behaviors, Affects, Sensory, Imagery, Cognitions, Interpersonal, and “Drugs”/biological factors—either singly or in combination can explain fully the realm of human experience and functioning. Similarity/dissimilarity was determined on the basis of Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) profiles. These four primary classes are Patient Predisposing Variables (diagnosis, personal characteristics, environments/circumstances), Treatment Context (setting, mode or format, frequency and duration), Relationship Variables (personal compatibility matching, enhancing of the therapeutic alliance), and Strategies and Techniques (focal targets of change, level at which goals of treatment are mediated, way of conducting the actual therapeutic work). Multimodal therapy agrees with other disciplines and psychological views 20 , 21 in recognizing that it is the techniques that are of prime importance in psychotherapy.

In "Between Therapist and Client, " Michael Kahn explores what is perhaps the most important aspect of therapy - the therapist-client relatonship. Herman SM: A demonstration of the validity of the Multimodal Structural Profile Inventory through a correlation with the vocational preference inventory. Green M: The effectiveness of A and B college males as interviewers, as response-biasers, and as verbal conditioners with schizophrenic and neurotic patients. Steer RA, Platt JJ, Rainert WF, et al: Relationships of SCL-90 profiles to methadone patients' psychosocial characteristics and treatment response. They are keenly aware of smells, tastes, sights, kinesthetics, and sounds, similar to the conceptualization of the strongly right brain–dominant individual.

The position favoring similarity appears to have evolved from observations that therapist and client demographic and personality characteristics such as gender, race, personality, and mental health have a “profound impact” on psychotherapeutic process and outcome. It was hypothesized that therapist–client similarity on the Multimodal Structural Profile Inventory would result in more successful psychotherapy outcomes than would therapist–client dissimilarity.Straightforward in its approach, the Structural Profile is a quick and easy way to obtain a general and global picture of a client's modality functioning. A must-read for anyone that wants to build a therapeutic relationship with clients within a psychodynamic framework.