The therapeutic alliance

The role of therapeutic alliance in mindfulness interventions: therapeutic alliance in mindfulness training for smokers.

OBJECTIVE Mindfulness-based interventions have enjoyed a marked increase in support within biomedical and psychological research and practice in the past two decades. Despite the widespread application of these treatments for a range of psychological and medical conditions, there remains a lack of consensus regarding mechanisms through which these interventions effect change. One plausible yet ...

` Psychology Evaluating Therapeutic Alliance Longitudinally: Describing Therapeutic Alliance Growth and Its Implications for Outcomes

Factors Predicting Therapeutic Alliance in Antisocial Adolescents

Reciprocal Model of Working Alliance and Therapeutic

A reciprocal influence model of the working alliance and the therapeutic outcome was examined in a sample of clients (n=638) seen by novice therapists. Past research has found a relation between the working alliance and symptom improvement and this relation has been interpreted as the alliance leading to such symptom change. The current study was an examination of whether the alliance does inde...

Disentangling the change-alliance relationship: Observational assessment of the therapeutic alliance during change and stuck episodes.

The therapeutic alliance is considered the most robust process variable associated with positive therapeutic outcome in a variety of psychotherapeutic models [Alexander, L. B., & Luborsky, L. (1986). The Penn Helping Alliance Scales. In L. S. Greenberg & W. M. Pinsoff (Eds.), The psychotherapeutic process: A research handbook (pp. 325-356). New York: Guilford Press; Horvath, A. O., Gaston, L., ...