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Allen-Meares, Paula Sartor, Cynthia Marie 2011-05-07T14:23:06Z 2011-05-07T14:23:06Z 10000-01-01 1990 This study examines the influence of therapist-client personality difference upon treatment outcome. This research was conducted at a community mental health center over a six and one half month period in which personality difference was evaluated for twenty-four clients and five therapists. Clients were identified at random from the client population seeking outpatient mental health services. Therapists volunteered for the study. Clients and therapists were given the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire to assess personality difference. Clients were given the Symptom Check List-90-Revised as a pretest-posttest measure to ascertain their diagnostic symptoms. A Client Satisfaction Survey (CAS) was administered at the end of the treatment experience to assess the client's evaluation of treatment. Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient was used as a primary statistical method. Sixteen statistical tests were run assessing the relationship between therapist-client personality difference and treatment outcome. Additional issues considered in this study were length of time in treatment, improvement rates in treatment, and diagnostic categories. No significant correlations were found between therapist-client personality difference and treatment outcome. Not one of the sixteen tests indicated a significant correlation at the 0.5 level of significance. However, themes in the data suggest that clients found their interaction with therapists to be very helpful regardless of the level of clinical improvement they recorded. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:23:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9114400.pdf: 4157561 bytes, checksum: 2eceb3340a09683d906d902ee6a93e4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1990 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:06:07Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:31:43-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9114400 (UMI)AAI9114400 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23681 eng Copyright 1990 Sartor, Cynthia Marie Social Work Psychology, Clinical The effect of therapist-client personality difference upon treatment outcome in a psychiatric setting text Social Work Psychology, Clinical Social Work Psychology, Clinical University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.