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Although responsiveness has been defined as a therapist-level factor mediating between client characteristics and treatment outcomes, further empirical studies are necessary to explore its effect in psychotherapy process and outcomes. This study aims to identify the subgroups of therapist responsiveness, and investigate the extent to which it is related to the working alliance and treatment outcomes. This study identifies profiles of responsiveness by using a latent profile analysis on self-reported data from 239 therapists from China. Results showed that therapists were categorized in terms of high, medium, and low-level responsiveness. Differences on working alliance, client symptom improvement, client overall improvement reached significant levels across the responsiveness profiles. These findings suggest that therapists vary in delivering responsiveness, which can further affect the effectiveness of their treatment.
Yaqian Tan (Sun,) studied this question.