Client and therapist views of contextual factors related to termination from psychotherapy: A comparison between unilateral and mutual terminators

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Table I. Means and Standard Deviations of Client and Therapist Ratings of the Importance of Termination Reasons

	Client		Therapist
Reason for termination	Mutual	Unilateral	Mutual	Unilateral
Accomplished goals	3.2 (1.2)^a	2.2 (1.1)^b	3.1 (1.1)^1	1.6 (0.9)^2
Could no longer fit time or therapy into schedule	1.1 (0.6)^a	2.1 (1.2)^b	1.3 (0.6)^1	2.5 (1.3)^2
Just lost interest in therapy	1.1 (0.4)^a	1.8 (1.2)^b	1.2 (0.5)^1	2.1 (1.0)^2
No longer had money or insurance coverage	1.1 (0.6)^a	1.8 (1.2)^b	1.1 (0.3)	1.4 (1.0)
Felt therapy was going nowhere so ended therapy	1.0 (0.3)^a	2.5 (1.2)^b	1.1 (0.4)^1	1.6 (1.1)^2
Felt therapy was making things worse	1.0 (0.2)^a	1.8 (1.3)^b	1.1 (0.3)	1.5 (1.1)
Weren't confident in therapist's ability to help	1.1 (0.3)^a	2.2 (1.3)^b	1.1 (0.4)^1	1.7 (1.0)^2
Uncomfortable talking about personal matters	1.0 (0.2)^a	1.9 (1.2)^b	1.1 (0.3)^1	1.6 (1.0)^2
Therapy did not fit with ideas of what would be helpful	1.2 (0.5)^a	2.1 (1.2)^b	1.2 (0.6)	1.6 (1.0)
Decided to go elsewhere for services	1.3 (0.9)	1.5 (0.8)	1.3 (1.0)	1.5 (1.0)
Note. Within clients, columns with different superscript letters differed from each other at least at p <.005. Within therapists, columns with different superscript numbers differed from each other at least at p <.005

Table II. Difference Scores and Standard Deviations (Client Importance Ratings Minus Therapist Importance Ratings) of Reasons for Termination

Reason for termination	Unilateral (n=29)	Mutual (n=52)
Accomplished goals	0.6 (1.2)	0.1 (0.9)
Could no longer fit time or therapy into schedule	−0.3 (1.4)	−0.1 (0.5)
Just lost interest in therapy	−0.3 (1.4)	−0.0 (0.4)
No longer had money or insurance coverage	0.3 (1.0)	0.1 (0.6)
Felt therapy was going nowhere so ended therapy	0.9 (1.4)*^a	−0.0 (0.3)^b
Felt therapy was making things worse	0.4 (1.1)^a	−0.0 (0.3)^b
Weren't confident in therapist's ability to help	0.6 (1.4)^a	−0.0 (0.5)^b
Uncomfortable talking about personal matters	0.3 (1.4)	−0.1 (0.3)
Therapy did not fit with ideas of what would be helpful	0.6 (1.4)^a	−0.1 (0.6)^b
Decided to go elsewhere for services	−0.1 (1.2)	0.0 (0.7)
Note. Columns with different superscripts differed from each other at least at p <.005.
*p <.001; indicates significant differences from zero.