Evaluating alliance-focused intervention for potential treatment failures: A feasibility study and descriptive analysis

Psychotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 512-531

  Safran, Jeremy D ^a,b   Muran, J Christopher ^c   Samstag, Lisa Wallner ^b,d   Winston, Arnold ^c  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance ruptures; Brief relational therapy; Therapeutic impasses; Treatment dropouts; Treatment failures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRIEF RELATIONAL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PILOT STUDY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33745081318     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-3204.42.4.512     Document Type: Article

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