Alliance in action: A new measure of clients' perceptions of therapists' alliance activity

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-77

  Owen, Jesse ^a   Reese, Robert J ^b   Quirk, Kelley ^a   Rodolfa, Emil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alliance; multilevel modeling; psychotherapy; session outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872521172     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2012.731088     Document Type: Article

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