ABSTRACT
In a creative design effort, the author survey graduates about their training and the treatment experiences and the current clinical practices – a means of seeing just how distance training transfers to subsequent clinical work. They achieve a solid response rate of about 49%, leading to a participant sample of the 90 graduates. Additionally, extracting a subset of the items from a scale rather than using the scale in its entirety does raise questions about reliability and validity for the subscale items. Lastly, the authors found that therapist characteristics were more important to their patients than cultural match or the type of the service delivery (in-office or technology-based). Again, this finding makes the intuitive sense and is consistent with the well-researched ideas about the importance of the therapeutic relationship, particularly in a psychoanalytic approach, where transference–countertransference issues are its essence.
