Predicting the early therapeutic alliance in the treatment of drug misuse

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 500-511

  Meier, Petra S ^a,b   Donmall, Michael C ^a   Barrowclough, Christine ^a   McElduff, Patrick ^a   Heller, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug treatment; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG MISUSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; WORKING ALLIANCE INVENTORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17244364335     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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