In an attempt to potentiate variables related to outcome and thereby maximize effectiveness, a large-scale, longitudinal study was conducted to examine the effects of patient choice of therapist. The experimental group patients chose a psychotherapist after interviewing three therapists in an outpatient clinic. Interpersonal attraction and perception attribution were significant in the choice process. Personality and demographic variables were not found to be related. The evidence suggests a measurable, mutually selective process occurred during the brief initial interview. The impact on the therapeutic relationship of choice versus assignment of a therapist is discussed, and implications for clinical practice are examined.Psychotherapy is a dynamic system, its properties determined by the interaction of what each person brings to the situation (

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Researchers from the Templeton study, "Forgiveness, Resiliency, and Survivorship Among Holocaust Survivors," and the Transcending Trauma Project, combined efforts to examine six transcripts of interviews with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. The researchers focused on the nature of parent-child family dynamics before, during, and after the Holocaust. They refined a Family Resilience Template (FRT) originally based on an ecological-systems design, adding an attachment theory component and a quantitative methodology. The goal of the research project was to pilot the FRT by further defining terms and adding a Quality of Family Dynamics Paradigm to encompass an intergenerational dimension. The researchers arrived at a consensus of item definitions, establishing the initial face validity of the FRT.

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