New analytic strategies help answer the controversial question of whether alliance is therapeutic in itself.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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2. The relationship between alliance and outcome: Analysis of a two-person perspective on alliance and session outcome.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016
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3. An individual-specific understanding of how synchrony becomes curative: study protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2025
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4. Proof of Concept of the Contribution of the Interaction between Trait-like and State-like Effects in Identifying Individual-Specific Mechanisms of Action in Biological Psychiatry.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022
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5. Can we agree we just had a rupture? Patient-therapist congruence on ruptures and its effects on outcome in brief relational therapy versus cognitive-behavioral therapy.Journal of counseling psychology · 2020
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6. Sudden gains in the alliance in cognitive behavioral therapy versus brief relational therapy.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019
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7. Identifying the most suitable treatment for depression based on patients' attachment: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of supportive-expressive vs. supportive treatments.BMC psychiatry · 2018
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8. Not Just Nonspecific Factors: The Roles of Alliance and Expectancy in Treatment, and Their Neurobiological Underpinnings.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018
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Abstract

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