Process and outcome of therapy in ethnically similar and dissimilar therapeutic dyads

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 567-575

  Farsimadan, Farkhondeh ^a   Draghi Lorenz, Riccardo ^b   Ellis, Jason ^b  

^a WEST LONDON MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDITY;

EID: 34548085427     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300601139996     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Abramowitz, S. I. and Murray, J. (1983) Race effects in psychotherapy. Bias in psychotherapy, pp. 215-255. Praeger, New York
2. Akustu, P. D., Liu, C. H. and Zane, N. W. (1990) Predictors of utilisation intent of counseling among Chinese and White students: A test of the proximal-distal model. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 37, pp. 445-452.
3. Atkinson, D. R. (1983) Ethnic similarity in counseling psychology: A review of research. The Counseling Psychologist, 11, pp. 79-92.
4. Atkinson, D. R., Maruyama, M. and Matsui, W. (1978) Effects of counselor race and counseling approach on Asian Americans' perceptions of counselor credibility and utility. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 25, pp. 76-83.
5. Atkinson, D. R. and Matsushita, Y. J. (1991) Japanese-American acculturation, counseling style, counselor ethnicity, and perceived counselor credibility. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, pp. 473-478.
6. Atkinson, D. R. and Schein, S. (1986) Similarity in counseling. The Counseling Psychologist, 14, pp. 319-354.
7. Atkinson, D. R. and Wampold, B. E. (1982) A comparison of the Counselor Rating Form and the Counselor Effectiveness Rating Scale. Counselor Education and Supervision, 22, pp. 25-36.
8. Baron, R. B. and Kenny, D. A. (1986) The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, pp. 1173-1182.
9. Bordin, E. S. (1976) The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 16, pp. 252-260.
10. Bordin, E. S. (1980) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, June, Pacific Grove, CA Of human bonds that bind or free
11. Derogatis, L. R. (1993) Brief Symptom Inventory, BSI: Administration, scoring and procedures manual, Clinical Psychometric Research, Towson, MD
12. Erdur, O., Rude, S., Draper, M., Baron, A. and Shankar, L. (2000) Working alliance and treatment outcome in ethnically similar and dissimilar client-therapist pairings, University of Texas, Research Consortium of Counseling and Psychological Services in Higher Education, Austin
13. Erdur, O. Symptom improvement and length of treatment in ethnically similar and dissimilar clienttherapist pairings.
14. Farsimadan, F., Draghi-Lorenz, R. and Ellis, J. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
15. Flaskerud, J. H. (1991) Effects of an Asian client-therapist language, ethnicity and gender match on utilisation and outcome of therapy. Community Mental Health Journal, 27, pp. 31-42.
16. Flaskerud, J. H. and Liu, P. Y. (1990) Influence of therapist ethnicity and language on therapy outcomes of Southeast Asian clients. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 36, pp. 18-29.
17. Gaston, L. (1990) The concept of alliance and its role in psychotherapy: Theoretical and empirical considerations. Psychotherapy, 27, pp. 143-153.
18. Gilliam, S., Jarman, B., White, P. and Law, R. (1989) Ethnic differences in urban general practice consultation rates. British Medical Journal, 299, pp. 953-957.
19. Gim, R. H., Atkinson, D. R. and Kim, S. J. (1991) Asian-American acculturation, counselor ethnicity and cultural sensitivity, and ratings of counselors. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, pp. 57-62.
20. Gray-Little, B. and Kaplan, D. (2000) Race and ethnicity in psychotherapy research. Handbook of psychological change, pp. 591-613. Wiley, New York
21. Harrison, D. K. (1975) Race as a counselor-client variable in counseling and psychotherapy: A review of the research. The Counseling Psychologist, 5, pp. 124-133.
22. Hartley, D. (1985) Psychiatric update, pp. 532-549. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC
23. Horvath, A. O. and Greenberg, L. S. (1989) The development and validation of the Working Alliance Inventory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 36, pp. 223-233.
24. Horvath, A. O. and Luborsky, L. (1993) The role of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61, pp. 561-573.
25. Horvath, A. O. and Symonds, B. D. (1991) Relation between working alliance and outcome in psychotherapy: A meta-analysis. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, pp. 139-149.
26. Jerrell, J. M. (1998) Effect of ethnic matching of young clients and mental health staff. Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 4, pp. 294-302.
27. Karlsson, R. (2004) Ethnic matching between therapist and patient in psychotherapy: An overview of findings, together with methodological and conceptual issues. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 11, pp. 113-129.
28. Knipscher, J. W. and Kleber, R. J. (2005) The importance of ethnic similarity in the therapist-patient dyad among Surinamese migrants in Dutch mental health care. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 77, pp. 273-278.
29. Laungani, P. (1999) Culture and identity: Implications for counseling. Counseling in a multicultural society, pp. 35-70. Sage, London
30. McRae, M. B. and Johnson, S. D. (1991) Toward training for competence in multicultural counselor education. Journal of Counseling and Development, 70, pp. 131-135.
31. Moorhouse, S. (2000) Quantitative research in intercultural therapy: Some methodological considerations. Intercultural therapy, pp. 88-110. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK
32. Redfern, S., Dancey, C. P. and Dryden, W. (1993) Empathy: Its effect of how counselors are perceived. British Journal of Guidance and Counseling, 21, pp. 300-309.
33. Ricker, M., Nystul, M. and Waldo, M. (1999) Counselors' and clients' ethnic similarity and therapeutic alliance in time-limited outcomes of counseling. Psychological Reports, 84, pp. 674-676.
34. Rowson, D., Whitehead, G. and Luthra, M. (1999) The challenges of counseling in a multicultural society. Counseling in a multicultural society, pp. 6-25. Sage, London
35. Ruelas, S. R., Atkinson, D. R. and Ramos-Sanchez, L. (1998) Counselor helping model, participant ethnicity and acculturation level, and perceived counselor credibility. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 45, pp. 98-103.
36. Sattler, J. M. (1977) The effects of therapist-client racial similarity. Effective psychotherapy: A handbook of research, pp. 252-290. Pergamon Press, New York
37. Strong, S. R. (1968) Counseling: An interpersonal influence process. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 15, pp. 215-224.
38. Sue, S., Fujino, D. C., Hu, L., Takeuchi, D. T. and Zane, N. W. S. (1991) Community mental health services for ethnic minority groups: A test of the cultural responsiveness hypothesis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59, pp. 533-540.
39. Sue, S., Zane, N. and Young, K. (1994) Race and ethnicity in psychotherapy research. Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change, pp. 783-830. Wiley, New York
40. Takeuchi, D. T., Sue, S. and Yeh, M. (1995) Return rates and outcomes from ethnicity-specific mental health programs in Los Angeles. American Journal of Public Health, 85, pp. 638-643.
41. Vera, E. M., Speight, S. L., Mildner, C. and Carlson, H. (1999) Clients' perceptions and evaluations of similarities to and differences from their counselors. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 46, pp. 277-283.
42. Vontress, C. E. (1988) An existential approach to cross-cultural counseling. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 6, pp. 73-84.
43. Yeh, M., Eastman, K. and Cheung, M. K. (1994) Children and adolescents in community health centers: Does the ethnicity or the language of the therapist matter?. Journal of Community Psychology, 22, pp. 153-163.
44. Yeh, M., Takeuchi, D. T. and Sue, S. (1994) Asian-American children treated in the mental health system: A comparison of parallel and mainstream outpatient service centers. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, pp. 5-12.