Do baseline client characteristics predict the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-14

  Couture, Shannon M ^a   Roberts, David L ^a   Penn, David L ^a,c   Cather, Corinne ^b   Otto, Michael W ^b   Goff, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance; Psychosocial treatment; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644601883     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000195315.39196.52     Document Type: Article

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