Psychotherapy can be seen as a complex decision process. First, we clarify some distinctions that have to be made in order to adequately describe and evaluate the state of affairs. Then we illustrate decisions made by clients, semi-professionals, and ...

Since psychotherapy failures and early dropouts represent a sizable percentage of the clients who start psychotherapy, it is clearly important to devise a methodologically sound and effective process of treatment selection. In this study, a negotiation ...

Many clinical judgments affect treatment decisions in behavior therapy. For most patients psychiatric diagnosis is insufficient for behavioral treatment design because there are important between-patient differences in causal factors. Pretreatment ...

Personality research has made considerable progress in developing dimensional models. This article reviews the application of these trait models to clinical theory and practice. Assessment of traits is useful for understanding the individual client, for ...

In this article we review the main findings in psychotherapy research that can contribute to the two goals of the treatment-selection process: (1) facilitating the first phase of therapy and (2) enhancement of final outcome of therapy. Psychotherapy ...

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate ...

Psychoeducational testing practices in Zimbabwe can be understood in terms of the colonial heritage of the country and the democratization of the education system following Black majority rule. Regulations for psychological practice and Western-oriented ...