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  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Mental Health Treatment

Background:

  • The dynamic interplay between therapeutic alliance and symptom change is crucial in psychotherapy.
  • Understanding reciprocal effects can optimize treatment outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the predictive relationship between working alliance stability/change and subsequent symptoms.
  • To examine how symptom stability/change predicts the subsequent working alliance.

Main Methods:

  • Multilevel polynomial regression and response surface analyses were employed.
  • Data collected from 188 adult clients and 44 doctoral student therapists over 893 eight-session periods.
  • Working Alliance Inventory-Short Revised (WAI-SR) and Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ) were utilized.

Main Results:

  • Alliance change did not immediately predict symptom change, but stable, stronger alliances were associated with lower subsequent symptoms.
  • Symptom change did not immediately predict alliance change, but stable, lower symptoms were linked to a stronger subsequent alliance.

Conclusions:

  • Sustained improvements in the working alliance contribute to symptom reduction, and vice versa.
  • Maintaining and enhancing both alliance and symptom improvements is vital for effective psychotherapy.
  • Reciprocal stabilization of alliance and symptoms is key for therapeutic progress.