CLINICAL EXPERTISE: SENSITIVITY - THERAPIST’S ABILITY TO RECEIVE AND EXPRESS RIGHT BRAIN NONVERBAL AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
It is now well established that the therapist’s ability to form an alliance is possibly the most crucial determinant of her effectiveness. According to Safran and Muran (2000), “after approximately a half century of psychotherapy research, one of the most consistent findings is that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success” (p. 1). In this current period of increased emphasis on “evidence-based practice,” Karver et al. (2006) performed a meta-analysis of therapeutic relationship variables and asserted: