What is it about?
The alliance continues to be one of the most investigated factors leading to psychotherapy success. The term alliance, has become increasingly popular in a variety of helping professions, including nursing, social work, medicine, psychiatry, rehabilitation, counseling, and e-mental health. How robust is the relation of the alliance as a holistic, collaborative quality measured during therapy with therapy outcomes?
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Why is it important?
Results: Based on over 300 studies, the positive relation of the alliance and outcome remains across assessor perspectives, alliance and outcome measures, treatment approaches, patient (intake-) characteristics, face-to-face and Internet-mediated therapies, and countries. Interpretation: The alliance, which is of a mutual collaboration and partnership between therapist and client, is an important aspect of psychotherapy across various psychotherapy approaches.
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Next Steps: The universality of the alliance– outcome relation and the potential conceptual boundaries have to be investigated across cultural and biopsychosocial contexts inside but also outside of psychotherapeutic settings in a quantitative and in a qualitative manner.
Christoph Flückiger
University of Zurich
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This page is a summary of: The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis., Psychotherapy, May 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pst0000172.
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