Previous research indicates that the therapeutic alliance is a main factor in determining successful outcomes of psychotherapy. The goal of this study was to expand the understanding of not only the therapeutic alliance, but also how other contributing factors such as empathy, experience of the therapist, therapeutic modality, client’s level of motivation, personality, and symptomology increase...

BACKGROUND: As downsizing of institutional care continues, patients discharged are likely to have more severe mental illnesses, and to have experienced longer tenures within institutions than patients who have been discharged in the past. As greater numbers of patients are removed from mental hospitals, the objective burden experienced by informal care-givers may increase, particularly if forma...

The existing literature on the socio-economic and living conditions of tribes in India and in Andhra Pradesh particular provided several factors that are directly and indirectly responsible for the socio-economic backwardness, poverty and indebtedness among different Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) and plain tribes. In this context The study of inter-tribe relations has assumed great importance ...