JelloFluff, I don't know the official names of the tests, but they are psychological instruments. Someone studying to be a therapist, like pinksoil, might know.

I occasionally read scholarly articles on psychotherapy and have seen the instruments referred to. Articles with topics such as the strength of the therapeutic relationship is what is most important in psychotherapy rather than the theoretical approach of the therapist. Also, I remember one article saying that these assessments show that the degree of a good attachment to the therapist (or a strong bond, or good fit, or whatever you call it) can be determined after the first 3 sessions, using these instruments. The scores don't really change if you give the test after 6 sessions or 10 or 20. I'm not saying the relationship doesn't grow, but that the goodness of fit can be determined very early. I am very curious about how I would score on such a test.

Recently I was at a seminar on addiction, and they were talking about the efficacy of 3 different forms of psychotherapy on treating addiction, and again, this point about the therapeutic relationship being so important rather than the type of therapy came up. I asked the question why don't they just assess the therapeutic relationship after 3 sessions, and if there is not a good fit, assign the client to a new therapist? They agreed this would be a good approach but it is not done. All this evidence shows the therapeutic relationship is so important, why not try what I suggested? (This is in very outcome-oriented therapies for those with heavy substance abuse problems. For anyone interested, the 3 forms of psychotherapy were CBT, a one-on-one AA type therapy, and I believe the third was a type of existential or interpersonal therapy.)