An in-session exploration of ruptures in working alliance and their associations with clients' core conflictual relationship themes, alliance-related discourse, and clients' postsession evaluations

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-388

  Sommerfeld, Eliane ^a   Orbach, Israel ^b   Zim, Shraga ^b   Mikulincer, Mario ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alliance; Ruptures in the working alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NARRATIVE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; WORKPLACE;

EID: 46949085135     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300701675873     Document Type: Article

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