“…While the literature in this area is still developing, child and adolescent researchers have begun to highlight the therapeutic relationship as an important area for investigation (Chu, Choudhury, Shortt, Pincus, Creed, & Kendall, 2004;Kendall, Robin, Hedtke, Suveg, Flannery-Schroeder, & Gosch, 2005;Kendall & Ollendick, 2004;Shirk & Karver, 2003). The importance of the therapeutic relationship to clinicians in the present study is a strong indicator that recent efforts to describe and study this process within the context of EBPs are valuable and should be expanded in the future.…”