The helping alliance and premature termination
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Counselling Psychology Quarterly
- Vol. 3 (3) , 233-238
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09515079008254254
Abstract
The study was conducted to determine the relationship between strength of the helping alliance and type of client termination (premature or with mutual knowledge of client and counselor). Participants were 102 client-counselors dyads at a university counseling center. After an average of 8 sessions, clients and couneselors completed Alexander & Luborsky's (1986) Helping Alliance Questionnaires. Clients terminated after an average of 19 sessions. Clients who later terminated with mutual knowledge of their counselors gave significantly higher strength of helping alliance ratings than did clients who later terminated unilaterally and prematurely. Counselors' ratings of strength of helping alliance were only modestly related to clients' ratings and unrelated to type of client termination.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Working alliance in the early phase of counseling.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990
- Improved Bonferroni-type multiple testing procedures.Psychological Bulletin, 1988
- Counselor-client agreement on session impact.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
- Therapist Success and Its DeterminantsArchives of General Psychiatry, 1985
- The Relationship in Counseling and PsychotherapyThe Counseling Psychologist, 1985
- Two Helping Alliance Methods for Predicting Outcomes of PsychotherapyJournal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 1983
- Follow-up adjustment of outpatient dropouts.Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1983
- Predicting the Outcomes of Psychotherapy by the Penn Helping Alliance Rating MethodArchives of General Psychiatry, 1982
- The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance.Psychotherapy, 1979