The Adolescent Therapeutic Alliance Scale (ATAS): Initial psychometrics and prediction of outcome in family-based substance abuse prevention counseling

Faw, Leyla; Hogue, Aaron; Johnson, Suzanne Bennett; Diamond, Gary M.; Liddle, Howard A.

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“…Consequently, there is accumulating evidence indicating that children do not seem to discriminate between distinct alliance dimensions of the therapeutic alliance. These findings suggest that the alliance construct in children receiving psychotherapy is best understood as a onedimensional construct (DiGiuseppe et al, 1996;Faw et al, 2005;Hogue et al, 2006).…”

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Measuring Therapeutic Alliance With Children in Residential Treatment and Therapeutic Day Care

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Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: This study examined the construct validity and reliability of a therapeutic alliance measure (Children's Alliance Questionnaire [CAQ]) for children with psychosocial and/or behavioral problems, receiving therapeutic residential care or day care in the Netherlands. Methods: Confirmatory factor analysis of a one-factor model ''therapeutic alliance'' was conducted on two samples of 115 and 116 children, aged 4-14 years. Reliability analysis and concurrent validity were examined. Results: Results showed a good fit to the data, indicating construct validity of the measures. Cronbach's a reliability coefficients were good for both alliance measures. Concurrent validity was supported by significant relations between the alliance scale and positive group climate (Group Climate Instrument for Children [GCIC]) and treatment motivation (Adolescent Treatment Motivation Questionnaire). No correlations with negative group climate (GCIC) were found. Discussion: The CAQ can be used as an assessment tool for therapeutic alliance within both residential treatment and therapeutic day care settings for children.

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Measuring Therapeutic Alliance With Children in Residential Treatment and Therapeutic Day Care

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Strijbosch³

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“…Notably, however, several studies of the therapist-youth relationship have failed to support the components of bond, task, and goal, finding instead a single unified construct. 23,24 Others have identified two separate factors-bond (e.g., affective orientation to the therapist and to therapy in general) and task (e.g., participation in, and collaboration with, the activities of therapy) 2,25 -but have failed to find a separate goal dimension.…”

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Youth Working Alliance: A Core Clinical Construct in Need of Empirical Maturity

Zack

Castonguay

Boswell

2007

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

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The therapeutic alliance has long been recognized as an important component of successful psychotherapy for adults; research has established robust links to outcome. Until recently, however, research on the alliance between youth and their therapists has been sparse. The present review synthesizes the existing findings regarding the youth alliance and utilizes the adult alliance literature and the child and adolescent developmental literatures to suggest future avenues of research. Weak alliance was found to predict premature termination, and strong alliance predicted symptom reduction, with some support for differential effects of the youth-therapist and parent-therapist alliances. In addition, the youth alliance is moderated by several patient and therapist characteristics, including the particular problems of patients and the interpersonal skills of therapists. The field has yet to coalesce around a single definition of the youth alliance, however, making it difficult to assess research results. Adult models of the alliance continue to be used heuristically despite some evidence that the alliance operates differently for youth. Tightening the operational definition of the youth alliance and addressing methodological issues will be essential in future efforts to understand how the alliance develops and what role it may play in the treatment process for youth.

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“…A small but growing body of research with children and adolescents has revealed a similar pattern of association between relationship variables, including alliance, and treatment outcomes (Faw, Hogue, Johnson, Diamond, & Liddle, 2005;Shirk & Karver, 2003). Recent studies with youth have reported that the alliance predicts outcome across individual (Hawley & Weisz, 2005;Kazdin, Marciano, & Whitley, 2005) and family (Hogue, Dauber, Stambaugh, Cecero, & Liddle, 2006;Shelef, Diamond, Diamond, & Liddle, 2005;Robbins et al, 2006) therapy.…”

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First-session pathways to the working alliance in cognitive–behavioral therapy for adolescent depression

Russell

Shirk

Jungbluth

2008

Psychotherapy Research

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In the current study of cognitive-behavioral therapy for 54 depressed adolescents, chained p-technique was applied to 14 therapist behaviors that were rated in each 10-min segment of Session 1 provided by eight female therapists. Four underlying factors were identified: experiential socialization, therapist responsiveness, therapist lapse, and remoralization. Analysis of changes in the prominence of these factors revealed significant Factor X Session Segment trends. Therapist responsiveness and remoralization growth curves across Session [corrected] accounted for significant variance in Session 4 [corrected] therapist-rated alliance. Experiential socialization growth curves across Session 1 also accounted for significant variance in Session 3 adolescent-rated alliance. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of Session 1 therapist behaviors for adolescent alliance formation.

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The Adolescent Therapeutic Alliance Scale (ATAS): Initial psychometrics and prediction of outcome in family-based substance abuse prevention counseling

Cited by 52 publications

References 26 publications

Measuring Therapeutic Alliance With Children in Residential Treatment and Therapeutic Day Care

Measuring Therapeutic Alliance With Children in Residential Treatment and Therapeutic Day Care

Youth Working Alliance: A Core Clinical Construct in Need of Empirical Maturity

First-session pathways to the working alliance in cognitive–behavioral therapy for adolescent depression

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