“…The mutual compatibility between the client's and the therapist's perspective and between the client's preferences and the reality of the psychotherapeutic situation form the principal focus in the negotiation process. Research findings indicate that disconfirmation of expectancies and preferences is related with dropout in the early phase of treatment (Duckro, Beal, & George, 1979; Goldstein 1962; Higginbotham, West, & Forsyth, 1988; Vervaeke, Vertommen, & Storms, 1997; Vervaeke, Bleyen, & Vertommen, 1997).…”