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Contribution of Therapist Experience and Personal Characteristics to the Working Alliance.
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This paper found that the level of self-directed hostility, perceived social support, and degree of comfort with closeness in interpersonal relationships were significantly predictive of the bond component of the working alliance.Abstract:
The authors hypothesized that level of experience and selected personal characteristics of therapists would predict clients' perceptions of the working alliance early in treatment. Therapists (N = 73) in university settings completed measures that assessed level of self-directed hostility, perceived social supports, and degree of comfort with attachment, and their clients completed a measure that estimated the working alliance between the 3rd and 5th sessions of therapy. As predicted, level of self-directed hostility, perceived social support, and degree of comfort with closeness in interpersonal relationships were significantly predictive of the bond component of the working alliance. Contrary to predictions, experience level was not uniquely predictive of clients' alliance ratings on the goal and task components of the alliance.read more
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Working alliance in online therapy as compared to face-to-face therapy: preliminary results.
Jonathan E. Cook,Carol Doyle +1 more
TL;DR: Results revealed significantly higher means on the goal subscale and composite score of the Working Alliance Inventory in the online sample, suggesting that a working alliance can be adequately established in therapy delivered online.
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Dynamic processes underlying adult attachment organization: Toward an attachment theoretical perspective on the healthy and effective self.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review studies probing the cognitive processes, affect self-regulatory dynamics, and relationship behaviors associated with secure (primary) and insecure (secondary) adult attachment strategies.
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Attachment, Social Competencies, Social Support, and Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy
TL;DR: According to the Social Competencies in Interpersonal Process (SCIP) model, social competencies include skills needed to recruit and maintain satisfying and supportive relationships, and trait-like dispositions that govern use of these skills as mentioned in this paper.
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Adult attachment patterns and individual psychotherapy: A review
TL;DR: The theory and measurement of individual differences in adult attachment, and the relevance of such adult attachment patterns to psychotherapy, are outlined and empirical findings regarding the effects of client and therapist attachment patterns on process and outcome in individual psychotherapy with adults are offered.
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The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance.
TL;DR: Bordin this article reviewed and elaborated the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance and argued that various modes of psychotherapy can be meaningfully differentiated in terms of the kinds of working alliances embedded in them, and that the strength, rather than the kind of working alliance, will prove to be the major factor in change achieved through psychotherapy.
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Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.
Nancy L. Collins,Stephen J. Read +1 more
TL;DR: Dimensions of attachment style were strongly related to how each partner perceived the relationship, although the dimension of attachment that best predicted quality differed for men and women.
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Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change
Sol L. Garfield,Allen E. Bergin +1 more
TL;DR: The NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program: Where We Began and Where We Are (I. Elkin, et al. as discussed by the authors ) presents a methodology, design, and evaluation in psychotherapy research.
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Relation between Working Alliance and Outcome in Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analysis.
TL;DR: In this article, the quality of the working alliance (WA) was most predictive of treatment outcomes based on clients' assessments, less so of therapists' assessments and least predictive of observers' report, and a moderate but reliable association between good WA and positive therapy outcome was found.