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Therapist Behaviors That Predict The Therapeutic Alliance In Couple Therapy, Bryan C. Kubricht
Therapist Behaviors That Predict The Therapeutic Alliance In Couple Therapy, Bryan C. Kubricht
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Couple therapy is successful in treating relationship distress. However, couple therapy does not benefit everyone. Consequently, it is important to study factors that predict therapeutic success. One such factor is what predicts the development of the therapeutic alliance in couple therapy. The purpose of this study was to code therapist behaviors, therapist warmth, empathy, presence, validation, collaboration, and technique factors (systemically-based techniques and session structure), in the first session of couple therapy to examine their ability to predict two aspects of the therapeutic alliance, between- and within-alliance, after the session for males and females. The hypotheses were tested utilizing multiple …