Only connect: The working alliance in computer-based cognitive behavioral therapy

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 139-146

  Kiluk, Brian D ^a   Serafini, Kelly ^a   Frankforter, Tami ^a   Nich, Charla ^a   Carroll, Kathleen M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Substance use treatment; Technology based interventions; Therapeutic alliance; Working alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER BASED TRAINING FOR COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKING ALLIANCE; WORKING ALLIANCE INVENTORY; WORKING ALLIANCE INVENTORY TECHNOLOGY BASED INTERVENTION; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84910643364     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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