The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Schizophrenia

“It's not like you have PSTD with a touch of dissociation”: Understanding dissociative identity disorder through first person accounts

“…At the time the study was conducted, all participants had received or were accessing psychological support that was specifically tailored around DID. The inclusion criteria for those who took part was: (1) to have been on a National Health Service (NHS) ward for at least two weeks within the last two years (Frank & Gunderson, 1990), (2) engaged in a therapeutic relationship with a ward-based health professional; and (3) score at least 30 on the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (DES-II; Carlson & Putnam, 1993). In addition to high DES-II scores (MScore = 72, SD = 10.56), all five participants who contributed accounts to this study had received a diagnosis of DID.…”

A Single-Case Experiment for an innovative Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Auditory Hallucinations and Delusions in Schizophrenia

“…For example, the use of the brief version of the measure could account for the observed change in score from the first follow-up to the third follow-up. Another limitation of the study might be related to therapeutic alliance, a factor that was not measured but that could have influenced symptom improvement (for a review see Martin, Garske, & David, 2000;Frank & Gunderson, 1990,). Finally, in order to reduce the administration time and maximize compliance, insight was assessed with a unidimensional measure.…”

Relation entre l'alliance thérapeutique, la santé mentale ainsi que la satisfaction envers la thérapie au cours d'un processus psychothérapeutique chez l'adulte /

“…Dans une étude visant à démontrer l'impact relatif des facteurs relationnels sur le résultat du traitement, Castonguay et al (1996) que plus l'alliance thérapeutique est forte, moins les clients ont des symptômes à la fin du traitement (Barber et al, 2000;Frank & Gunderson, 1990;Gaston et al, 1998;Howgego et al, 2003;Luborsky, 1994). Spécifiquement, lors de leur méta-analyse, Martin et al (2000) ont constaté que, dépendamment des études, le résultat de la thérapie est défini de façons différentes.…”