CONGRUENCE IN PERSONALITY BETWEEN CLINICIAN AND CLIENT - RELATIONSHIP TO RATINGS OF VOICE TREATMENT

This study examined relationships between ratings of voice therapy sessions and clinician and client personality characteristics as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Nineteen clinician-client pairs were rated on behaviors demonstrated in two therapy sessions. Results indicated that client variables of thinking-feeling and judgment-perception were related to amount of clinician feedback, client eye contact, ratio of clinician-client eye contact and amount of clinician explanation, clarity of explanation, clinician's initiative, and client eye contact, respectively. Clinicians' sensing-intuition was related to the amount of feedback to client and quality of the task sequence. Clinician's judgment-perception was related to amount of explanation and client's attention to clinician. Similarity in clinician-client sensing-intuition was related with task involvement of the client, clinician's attention to client, and clinician eye contact. Similarity in judgment-perception was related to greater use of counseling. Similarity in thinking-feeling was related to low amounts of clinician eye contact.