TMatch - Client Preference for Therapist Demographics

Client Preference for Therapist Religion or Spirituality

In the boxes below, check your preferences, if any, for your ideal therapist. For
most traits, you may check more than one preference. Then if you have checked
something besides "I don't care," indicate the importance to you of your choice.

Religious Background

Extremely Important

Very Important

Somewhat Important

Not Very Important

Current Religious Practice

Extremely Important

Very Important

Somewhat Important

Not Very Important

Importance of religion or
spirituality in therapist's life

Extremely Important

Very Important

Somewhat Important

Not Very Important

Therapist's minimum level of
religious or spiritual expertise

Extremely Important

Very Important

Somewhat Important

Not Very Important

How This Assessment was Created

These questions were for assessing clients on their preferences for these areas of religion or spirituality in their therapists. They were part of the client questionnaire in TMatch. Therapists were asked equivalent questions in the therapist questionnaire, or course without the questions about the importance of the preferences. Clients were then matched to therapists based on the degree to which their preferences matched the therapists' self-assessments. Although there were predictions that therapists would not be willing to answer these questions, there wasn't a single therapist in the study who expressed the slightest amount of reluctance to answer any of these questions.