The Personal and Professional Characteristics of Master Therapists and Matched Controls

This dissertation is an attempt to replicate the results of a study conducted by Len Jennings(1996) which provided the data underlying the cognitive, emotional, and relational (CER) model of therapist excellence. As outlined in Jennings\u27(1996) research protocol, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with ten master therapists chosen through a snowball sampling technique. Unlike the original study, this dissertation includes a matched control group intended to provide insight about the generalizability of the categories/domains of CER