Working alliance inventory-short revised (WAI-SR): Psychometric properties in outpatients and inpatients

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 231-239

  Munder, Thomas ^a,b   Wilmers, Fabian ^c   Leonhart, Rainer ^a   Linster, Hans Wolfgang ^a   Barth, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Werner Schwidder Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Inpatients; Outpatients; Psychotherapy Process; Therapeutic Alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBJECT RELATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMBULATORY CARE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOALS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954652454     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.658     Document Type: Article

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