The alliance as mediator of expectancy effects in short-term individual therapy.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The authors investigated the hypothesis that the therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between pretherapy expectancy of improvement and psychotherapy outcome. Data were drawn from a comparative trial of 2 forms of short-term, time-limited individual psychotherapy (W. E. Piper, A. S. Joyce, M. McCallum, & H. F. Azim, 1998). Measures of expectancy and outcome were based on an individualized assessment of target objectives; outcome was considered from 3 perspectives (patient, independent assessor, therapist). Using the R. M. Baron and D. A. Kenny (1986) procedure, the authors found evidence in support of the hypothesized mediation effect. The effect was evident when the alliance was rated from the perspective of either patient or therapist, and it accounted for one third of the direct impact of expectancy on outcome. Clinical implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it