The association between patient–therapist MATRIX congruence and treatment outcome

Shlomo Mendlovic; Amit Saad; Uri Roll; Ariel Ben Yehuda; Rivka Tuval-Mashiah; Dana Atzil-Slonim

doi:10.1080/10503307.2018.1448479

The association between patient–therapist MATRIX congruence and treatment outcome

Shlomo Mendlovic, Amit Saad, Uri Roll, Ariel Ben Yehuda, Rivka Tuval-Mashiah, Dana Atzil-Slonim

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Objective: The present study aimed to examine the association between patient–therapist micro-level congruence/incongruence ratio and psychotherapeutic outcome. Method: Nine good- and nine poor-outcome psychodynamic treatments (segregated by comparing pre- and post-treatment BDI-II) were analyzed (N = 18) moment by moment using the MATRIX (total number of MATRIX codes analyzed = 11,125). MATRIX congruence was defined as similar adjacent MATRIX codes. Results: the congruence/incongruence ratio tended to increase as the treatment progressed only in good-outcome treatments. Conclusion: Progression of MATRIX codes’ congruence/incongruence ratio is associated with good outcome of psychotherapy.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	935-946
Number of pages	12
Journal	Psychotherapy Research
Volume	29
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2018.1448479
State	Published - 8 Oct 2019

Keywords

congruence
MATRIX
outcome measures
process analysis

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Clinical Psychology

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