ABSTRACT
With all the progress that has been made in developing scales and measures to be used in psychotherapy research, we should be able to predict with accuracy how many therapy sessions given clients are likely to attend. It would enable to refer clients to therapies of appropriate length, safe in the knowledge that they would be receiving the appropriate 'dose' of psychotherapy and that scarce therapy resources were being well deployed. The reality is that attempts to predict, with accuracy, how many therapy session’s clients will attend have not proven successful. This means that while we may think that a specific client may benefit from 12 sessions of psychotherapy, for example, based on a full assessment of their problems and coping skills and also of their treatment length preferences, the truth is that this person may only attend a single therapy session.
