The therapeutic alliance: is it necessary or sufficient to engender positive outcomes?

Acta Neuropsychiatrica

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-98

  Macneil, Craig A ^a   Hasty, Melissa K ^a   Evans, Melanie ^a   Redlich, Cassie ^a   Berk, Michael ^a,b,c,d  

^a ORYGEN RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Geelong Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449121944     PISSN: 09242708     EISSN: 16015215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5215.2009.00372.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. McGlashan TH, Heinssen RK, Fenton WS. Schizophrenia; positive and negative symptoms and syndromes. In: Andreason NC, ed. Modern problems in pharmacopsychiatry. Basel : Karger, 1990 175 200.
2. Beck AT, Rush AJ, Shaw BF, Emery G. Cognitive therapy of depression. New York : The Guilford Press, 1979.
3. Casement P. Learning from the patient. New York : Guilford Press, 1991.
4. Freedman J, Combs G. Narrative therapy. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.
5. O'Connell B. Solution-focused therapy. London : SAGE Publications, 1998.
6. Young JE, Klosko JS, Weishaar M. Schema therapy: a practitioner's guide. New York : Guilford, 2003.
7. Pritchard-Jones K, Dixon-Woods M, Naafs-Wilstra M, Valsecchi MG. Improving recruitment to clinical trials for cancer in childhood. Lancet Oncol 2008 9 : 392 399.
8. Anderson RM, Funnell MM. The art and science of diabetes education. Diabetes Educ 2008 34 : 109 117.
9. Crits-Cristoph P, Baranackie K, Kurcias JS et al. Meta-analysis of therapist effects in psychotherapy outcome studies. Psychotherapy Res 1991 1 : 81 91.
10. Keijsers GPJ, Schaap CPDR, Hoogduin CAL. The impact of interpersonal patient and therapist behavior on outcome in cognitive behavior therapy. Behav Modif 2000 24 : 264 297.
11. Teyber E, McClure F. Therapist variables. In: Snyder CR, Ingram RE, eds. Handbook of psychological change. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
12. Horvath AO, Greenberg LS. Development and validation of the Working Alliance Inventory. J Counsel Psychol 1989 36 : 223 233.
13. Gaston L. Reliability and criterion-related validity of the California Psychotherapy Alliance Scales - Patient Version. Psychol Assess 1991 3 : 68 74.
14. Blatt SJ, Sanislow CA, Zuroff DC, Pilkonis PA. Characteristics of effective therapists: further analyses of data from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. J Consult Clin Psychol 1996 64 : 1276 1284. (Pubitemid 27014832)
15. Strauss JL, Johnson SL. Role of treatment alliance in the clinical management of bipolar disorder: stronger alliances prospectively predict fewer manic symptoms. Psychiatry Res 2006 145 : 215 223.
16. Hirschfeld RM, Lewis L, Vornik LA. Perceptions and impact of bipolar disorder: how far have we really come? Results of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association 2000 survey of individuals with bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychiatry 2003 64 : 161 174. (Pubitemid 36268319)
17. Frank AF, Gunderson JG. The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1990 47 : 228 236.
18. Bethea AR, Acosta MC, Haller DL. Patient versus therapist alliance: whose perception matters? J Subst Abuse Treat 2008 35 : 174 183.
19. Keeley ML, Storch EA, Merlo LJ, Geffken GR. Clinical predictors of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clin Psychol Rev 2008 28 : 118 130. (Pubitemid 350309692)
20. Fakhoury WKH, White I, Priebe S, PLAO Study Group. Be good to your patient: how the therapeutic relationship in the treatment of patients admitted to assertive outreach affects rehospitalization. J Nerv Ment Dis 2007 195 : 789 791.
21. Meier PS, Barrowclough C, Donmall MC. The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of substance use: a critical review of the literature. Addiction 2004 100 : 304 316.
22. Carroll KM. Only connect? Addiction 2005 100 : 267 268. (Pubitemid 40363430)
23. Elvins R, Green J. The conceptualization and measurement of therapeutic alliance: an empirical review. Clin Psychol Rev 2008 28 : 1167 1187.
24. Green J. Annotation: the therapeutic alliance - a significant but neglected variable in child mental health treatment studies. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2006 47 : 425 435.
25. Bordin ES. The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance. Psychother Theor Res Pract 1979 16 : 252 260.
26. Shattell MM, Starr SS, Thomas SP. 'Take my hand, help me out': mental health service recipients' experience of the therapeutic relationship. IntJ Ment Health Nurs 2007 16 : 274 284.
27. Sloan G. Anorexia nervosa: a cognitive-behavioural approach. Nurs Stand 1999 13 : 43 47.
28. George L. The psychological characteristics of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and the nurse's role in creating a therapeutic relationship. J Adv Nurs 1997 26 : 899 908. (Pubitemid 127454744)
29. Zinbarg RE, Uliaszek AA, Adler JM. The role of personality in psychotherapy for anxiety and depression. J Pers 2008 76 : 1649 1687.
30. Kahn D. The psychotherapy of mania. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1990 13 : 229 240. (Pubitemid 20219993)
31. Goodwin F, Jamison K. Manic depressive illness. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990.
32. Ackerman SJ, Hilsenroth MJ. A review of therapist characteristics and techniques positively impacting on the therapeutic alliance. Clin Psychol Rev 2003 23 : 1 33. (Pubitemid 36135771)
33. Rogers CR. Client centred therapy. London : Constable & Robinson, 1976.
34. Macneil CA, Hasty MK, Conus P, Berk M, Scott J. Bipolar disorder in young people: a psychological intervention manual. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
35. Schwartz B, Flowers JV. How to fail as a therapist. California : Impact Publishers, 2006.
36. Miller WR, Rollnick S. Motivational interviewing: preparing people for change (Second Edition). New York : The Guilford Press, 2002.
37. Meyer B, Pilkonis PA, Krupnick JL, Egan MK, Simmens SJ, Sotsky SM. Treatment expectancies, patient alliance, and outcome: further analyses from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. J Consult Clin Psychol 2002 70 : 1051 1055.
38. Yalom ID. The gift of therapy: reflections on being a therapist. London : Piatkus, 2002.
39. Erickson MH, Rossi EL. Experiencing hypnosis: therapeutic approaches to altered states. New York : Irvington, 1979.