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The article evaluates the relationship of therapists' ratings of patients to duration of stay in therapy, and appraises the effect of clinical experience on these relationships. Fifteen rated variables were utilized and compared with duration of stay in outpatient psychotherapy. The most striking finding of this study is the moderate to high reliability of ratings of experienced judges on therapeutic assets of therapy candidates and the failure of these judgments to relate to actual duration of stay in psychotherapy.

The article discusses the study showing the effects of therapeutic conditions in child therapy. Sixteen practicing child psychotherapists and 16 child patients were used as sample subjects in the study. Each children were evaluated early in therapy and four and a half months later by their respective therapists using the Current Adjustment Rating Scale. The effects of accurate empathy, warmth and genuineness in non-verbal communication of child therapy were also analyzed. Results show that the children receiving higher conditions improved significantly, while the parent's evaluations suggest that the children receiving low levels of empathy, warmth and genuineness showed actual deterioration.