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Showing papers by "Adam O. Horvath published in 2015"


Book Chapter
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This paper examined how therapists and clients achieve re-affiliation through verbal and non-verbal resources, how such affiliation becomes vulnerable and at risk, and how therapists attempt to re-establish affiliative ties with the client or fail to do so.
Abstract: Over the past three decades a great deal of energy has been invested in examining the consequences of relational stresses and their repair. Less work has been done to examine how therapists and clients actually achieve re-affiliation through verbal and non-verbal resources, how such affiliation becomes vulnerable and at risk, and how therapists attempt to re-establish affiliative ties with the client--or fail to do so. We utilize the method of Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine clinical cases that involve extended episodes of disaffiliation. Clients with different styles of disaffiliation--confrontation and withdrawal--are compared. We show how disaffiliation is interactionally realized in different ways and how this is followed by more or less successful attempts at repair.

58 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analytisch untersuchte Prozessvariable in der psychotherapie is presented, i.e., the difference between the Arbeitsallianz and the Therapeuteneffekte.
Abstract: Das pantheoretische Konzept der Arbeitsallianz stellt die kollaborative Qualitat der an der Therapie beteiligten Personen (i. e. zumeist der Patient und der Therapeut) in den Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeitsallianz ist die weltweit am besten untersuchte Prozessvariable in der Psychotherapie. Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet einen Uberblick uber den aktuellen metaanalytischen Wissensstand. Basierend auf 200 Primarstudien mit 14.000 teilnehmenden Patienten wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsallianz und Therapieerfolg metaanalytisch untersucht. Die Arbeitsallianz erweist sich als auserst robuster Pradiktor, der moderate 8 % der Varianz des Therapieerfolgs erklart. Der Zusammenhang uber die verschiedenen Psychotherapietraditionen hinweg zeigte sich sowohl unter randomisierten kontrollierten, manualisierten Studienbedingungen als auch unter naturalistischen Voraussetzungen. Der Effekt fand sich zudem in den storungsspezifischen Erfolgseinschatzungen und den generelleren Erfolgsmasen. Die moderaten Therapeuteneffekte in den Primarstudien konnten metaanalytisch bestatigt werden. Soziokulturelle Aspekte wie Substanzmissbrauch und ethnische Minoritaten moderieren den Einfluss zwischen Arbeitsallianz und Therapieerfolg. Die Nahe der Forscher zum Allianzkonzept („allegiance“) beeinflusst die Vorhersagekraft der fruhen Allianz zwar statistisch bedeutsam, jedoch nicht substanziell.

14 citations


Reference EntryDOI
23 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a moderate but robust positive link between therapist-client alliance and therapy outcome was detected in the early phases (sessions 3-5) of treatment, and the authors suggested that therapists are the dominant force determining the alliance quality.
Abstract: Therapeutic/working alliance refers to the strength of the collaborative dimensions of the therapist–client relationship. Historically rooted in psychodynamic theory, more recently it has evolved into a pan-theoretical concept. Research evidence indicates a moderate but robust positive link between alliance and therapy outcome (effect size = .27). This link can be already detected in the early phases (sessions 3–5) of treatment. The alliance, or its management, may be linked to outcome directly (as a source of therapeutic effect) and/or indirectly (as a force that binds the client to the therapeutic strategies). Recent meta-analyses suggest that the strength of the alliance–outcome relation varies across studies; therefore it is likely that the alliance plays different roles in different contexts. Emerging research indicates that therapists are the dominant force determining the alliance quality; some therapists achieve better alliances across a variety of clients, others are consistently less successful. Keywords: alliance; counseling psychology; therapy relationship; psychoanalysis; research; therapy

2 citations