They define the strengths, limitations, and opportunities for creating a therapeutic alliance with a computer program.
Regardless of the model being used, there are ways to measure therapeutic alliance, and therapeutic alliance is a good predictor of therapy outcome.
Higher scores reflect a more positive perception of the therapeutic alliance.
This arises from a therapeutic understanding of the relationship between staff and patients and involves fostering a robust therapeutic alliance.
Many authors have sought to develop strategies geared to fostering a good therapeutic alliance in couple therapy.
This can be done safely without creating boundary problems and will lead to a strengthening of the therapeutic alliance.
Research on the therapeutic alliance has demonstrated the importance of relationship factors in predicting outcome regardless of therapeutic model.
Controlled outcome studies using manuals typically report very high levels of therapeutic alliance.
Further studies employing in-office and home-based participants would aid in determining the contextual influences of home-based therapy on the therapeutic alliance.
Finally, future studies should also seek out the client characteristics likely to foster or hinder the establishment of a good therapeutic alliance.
In addition, research is also needed on the measurement of the therapeutic alliance in family therapy.
Patients receiving medication and psychotherapy reported slightly stronger therapeutic alliances than the others did.
The management of the depressed teenager begins at the first interview with the creation of a therapeutic alliance.
Future studies would also do well to measure the therapeutic alliance several times over the course of therapy.
Clinicians and researchers in the field of couple therapy have focused on the therapeutic alliance because of its documented impact on treatment completion and outcome.
In ordinary psychotherapy, we talk about the "therapeutic alliance."
The setting in which therapy occurs can both positively and negatively influence the therapeutic alliance.
Data gathered in this study indicates that marital adjustment predicts quality of therapeutic alliance at session three.
In 1986, Pinsof and Catherall developed a scale to assess the characteristics of the therapeutic alliance in a family therapy setting.
Another study found that 74 percent of patients with fair or poor therapeutic alliances failed to comply fully with medication regimens.