抄録
The relationship quality between therapists and clients is crucial for obtaining a good outcome from long-term therapeutic relationships such as counseling and physical/occupational therapy. Although findings on the relationship between the compatibility of therapists and clients and their self-reported psychological characteristics/behaviors have been accumulated, it has been suggested that the compatibility of interpersonal relationships cannot be predicted by psychological constructs. Recently, using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and a newly developed similarity index, we overcame the limitations of self-report psychological constructs and succeeded in predicting the compatibility of interpersonal relationships a priori. We propose a procedure to predict therapist-client compatibility for better therapeutic outcomes. We hope that this tutorial note will promote the development of a prediction system and help make it more practical in the near future.
