Matching the patient to the therapist: The roles of the attachment status and the helping alliance

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 839-844

  Petrowski, Katja ^a   Nowacki, Katja ^b   Pokorny, Dan ^c   Buchheim, Anna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

alliance; Attachment representation; therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HELPING ALLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455168248     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182349cce     Document Type: Article

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