"Therapist Ratings
Therapist empathy self-rating scales are not as common, but probably the most widely used is the B-LRI Myself to Other (MO) version (B-L RI: Form-MO). Earlier reviews (BarrettLennard, 1981; Gurman, 1977) found that therapist-rated empathy neither predicted outcome nor correlated with client-rated or observer-rated empathy. However, we previously found that therapist-rated empathy did predict outcome, but at a lower level than client or observer ratings (Elliott et al., 2011). "