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Therapeutic/Working Alliance

2015· other· en· W1520352717 on OpenAlexaff
Adam O. Horvath

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlliancePsychodynamicsOutcome (game theory)PsychologyPsychotherapistPsychodynamic psychotherapyTherapeutic relationshipVariety (cybernetics)Social psychologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceMicroeconomicsEconomics

Abstract

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Abstract Therapeutic/working alliance refers to the strength of the collaborative dimensions of the therapist–client relationship. Historically rooted in psychodynamic theory, more recently it has evolved into a pan‐theoretical concept. Research evidence indicates a moderate but robust positive link between alliance and therapy outcome (effect size = .27). This link can be already detected in the early phases (sessions 3–5) of treatment. The alliance, or its management, may be linked to outcome directly (as a source of therapeutic effect) and/or indirectly (as a force that binds the client to the therapeutic strategies). Recent meta‐analyses suggest that the strength of the alliance–outcome relation varies across studies; therefore it is likely that the alliance plays different roles in different contexts. Emerging research indicates that therapists are the dominant force determining the alliance quality; some therapists achieve better alliances across a variety of clients, others are consistently less successful.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.119

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0350.009

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.223
GPT teacher head0.526
Teacher spread0.303 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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