Research summary on the therapeutic relationship and psychotherapy outcome.

By M. Lambert, D. Barley. 2001

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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Active Ingredients of Executive Coaching (2009, background): “The quality and durability of the client–therapist relationship can make or break therapy (Lambert & Barley, 2002).”
Autonomy support, relationship satisfaction and goal focus in the coach–coachee relationship: which best predicts coaching success? (2014, methodology): “That is to say that, in psychotherapy, a supportive relationship is twice as impactful as the specific theory and techniques employed (Lambert & Barley, 2001).”
A Comparative Conversation Analytic Study of Formulations in Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2013, background): “A common factor may also be involved here: Directing the client’s attention to emotional experiences is also shown to be a common factor of successful treatment (Lambert & Barley, 2001).”
Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model (2015, background): “Indeed, many have suggested that the therapeutic relationship accounts for greater variance in clinical outcomes than do those aspects of the therapy that are described as “techniques” (Blatt & Zuroff, 2005; Henry, 1998; Lambert & Barley, 2001; Norcross, 1999).”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “the therapeutic relationship, an important feature of successful interventions (Lambert and Barley 2001).”
A critical review of executive coaching research: a decade of progress and what's to come (2011, background): “This would accord with Lambert and Barley earlier work (2002) who noted from a meta-analysis of counselling that client readiness was the most significant factor in bringing about change (accounting for 40% of the variation in outcomes).”
Mindfulness and counseling self-efficacy: The mediating role of attention and empathy. (2009, background): “Outcome research reveals that two essential skills for successful counseling are the capacity to maintain attentive presence and the ability to empathize with the client (Lambert & Barley, 2001; Orlinsky et al., 1994; Wampold, 2001; Watson, 2001).”
Therapists' experiences of relational depth: a qualitative interview study (2005, background): “Today, a substantial body of evidence suggests that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is one of the key factors in determining outcomes (see summaries in Cooper, 2004 ; Norcross, 2002 ) and many leading psychotherapy researchers consider it second only to the client's own resources and e”
Behavioral activation treatments of depression: a meta-analysis. (2007, background): “…itself, but by common factors, such as an intensive relationship between a patient and a therapist, the expectation of a patient to be cured, the ‘ritual’ of the therapy, and the presentation of a clear ‘rationale’with which the problems of the patient can be explained (Lambert & Barley, 2001).”