found as well as a moderating effect of alliance. It seems that a better quality of therapeutic alliance leads to better patient working capacity and which is also associated with positive therapeutic change. More than a dozen process variables were identified which distinguish between treatments with and those without positive outcome overall patients, such as the degree of therapist's empathy and patient's compliance. Furthermore, only two therapeutic techniques were identified which are associated with therapeutic change. Therapeutic match seems to impact therapeutic outcome if there is a complementary match (e.g. anaclitic patients with differentiation-oriented therapists as well as introjective patients with relatedness-oriented therapists) than concordant matches (patient and therapist variables which are related to the same psychological dimension within each dyad). Clinical implications are discussed in terms of interaction between patient personality and therapist variable and therapeutic alliance. Limitations of the study amongst others are the small sample size and diagnostic heterogeneity of the patients. Further studies should replicate the objectives with bigger samples and include not only rater-based perspective but also other outcome measures. G$#.1/.\! Ingrid Erhardt, Dr. phil., Dipl.-Psych. University of Kassel (PhD from University of Munich) Department Psychology, University of Kassel, Holländische Str. 36-38; D-34127 Kassel (Germany) Email: ingrid.erhardt@uni-kassel.de
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