Alliance Bond Capacity & Rupture Repair Response
Therapeutic Alliance and Alliance Rupture Repair Responsiveness (ARRR)
- Therapeutic alliance is the strongest and most consistent therapeutic process that predicts client outcomes. (based on meta-analysis of 30,000 clients from nearly 300 independent samples!)
- Therapists play a significant role in shaping alliance processes
- Some therapists are reliably better at developing therapeutic relationships.
- The clients of these therapists are more likely to recover
- Alliance Rupture Repair Strategies
- Responsiveness to unique relational situation (i.e., concrete procedures for addressing alliance issues may not always work).