Inaug.-diss.--München. / Bibliography: p. vi-viii.

Inaug.-Diss.--Theologische Fakultät--Kiel, 1973. / Bibliogr. p. 531-552. Index.

Inaug.-diss.--München. / Bibliography: p. vi-viii.

This thesis explores the associations between therapist and client attachment styles and the working alliance. It is presented as three papers: a literature review, a report of the empirical research study, and a critical reflection of the research process. In the first paper, the author provides a systematic review of studies that have investigated the association between therapist attachment and the working alliance and therapist attachment and clinical outcome. A total of nine research studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in the final review. The studies varied considerably in terms of their design and methodology, as well as, the different tools used to measure the therapeutic alliance, attachment style and outcome. The findings were then organized in terms of the relationship between therapist attachment and client-rated therapeutic alliance; the relationship between therapist attachment and therapist-rated alliance; the relationship between therapist attachment and alliance as rated by an observer and finally, the relationship between therapist attachment and outcome. The key findings were that therapist attachment security was associated with client-rated and therapist-rated working alliance. However, the overall association between therapist attachment and alliance was not straight forward. There was evidence to suggest that the attachment style of therapist and the client interact to produce a combined effect on perceptions of the working alliance and outcome. The empirical research paper examined the extent to which client and therapist self-reported attachment styles were related to the working alliance. The study also investigated any role for client attachment to therapist and psychological mindedness. Both these variables were included as exploratory. It was hypothesised that psychological mindedness may be related to secure attachment and the alliance. Specifically, we investigated the extent to which self-reported attachment styles were related to the working alliance and assessed the relative contribution of psychological mindedness to attachment security and the quality of the working alliance. Thirty clients and 42 therapists from primary care services were recruited. Participants completed measures of anxiety and depression, attachment style, working alliance and psychological mindedness. Therapist attachment security was not related to the alliance. No significant relationships were found between client attachment style and the working alliance. However, therapists and clients with oppositional attachment styles had more favourable alliances. The clinical implications and future research directions is then discussed.The final paper provides a critical reflection of the research process. It begins by outlining the rationale for the development of the literature review and the empirical research paper, and goes on to discuss some of the methodological considerations of the research paper. The implications for therapeutic practice are then suggested, followed by the wider service-related issues. Attachment theory is then critiqued, and the clinical implications discussed. Finally recommendations are made for future research.

Texte remanié de: Ph. D. thesis--Durham, England--University, 1993. / Bibliogr. p. [329]-360. Index.

For a graph G = (V, E), a non-empty set S ⊆ V is a defensive alliance if for every vertex v in S, v has at most one more neighbor in V - S than it has in S, and S is an offensive alliance if for every v ∈ V - S that has a neighbor in S, v has more neighbors in S than in V - S. A powerful alliance is both defensive and offensive. We initiate the study of powerful alliances in graphs.

This study analyzes 197 companies formed through strategic alliance during the period 1995-2004. There are 107 samples of technological strategic alliance and 90 samples of marketing strategic alliance. The empirical methodology used in this research is the event study approach, which assesses the value implications of the announcement of forming strategic alliance. This study then examines relationships between abnormal returns and relative scale of strategic alliances partners, and profitability of companies through regression analysis to find the following results: 1. The announcement will bring significantly positive abnormal return to the company. 2. Abnormal returns of technological alliance are greater than that of marketing alliance announcements. 3. There is no significant relationship between relative sizes of partners and abnormal returns. Accumulative abnormal returns of relatively larger size partner are higher than relatively smaller size partners. Relatively larger partners in technological alliances gain more benefits in a strategic alliance. 4. The profitability of firms entering strategic alliances is negatively correlated with abnormal returns attributable to alliance announcements. Such a negative correlation is greater for marketing alliances than for technological alliances.

Prior research has shown the therapeutic alliance to be positively related to therapeutic outcome in couple therapy (Johnson & Talitman, 2007; Knoblock-Fedders, Pinsoff, & Mann, 2007). It is common for the therapeutic alliance to vary over the course of therapy. Alliance ruptures can be defined as "deteriorations in the relationship between therapist and patient" (Safran & Muran, 1996, p. 447). If managed successfully, these moments of alliance rupture can positively impact therapy (Safran & Muran, 1996; Sprenkle, Davis, & Lebow, 2009). As a result, researchers have begun to develop models of alliance rupture repair to help further our understanding of how this process is achieved in various therapeutic approaches (Aspland, Llewelyn, Hardy, Barkham, & Stiles, 2008; Binder, Holgerse, & Nielsen, 2008; Safran & Muran, 1996). The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary, discovery-oriented task analysis (Greenberg, 2007) in order to develop a model of alliance rupture repair in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a couple therapy approach which encourages emotional reconnection and restructuring of couple interactions developed by Susan Johnson and Les Greenberg (Johnson, 2004). By conducting a thought experiment with four experienced certified EFT therapists, a rational model of alliance rupture repair in EFT was formulated. The rational model was then compared with the analysis of alliance rupture repair sequences during the process of one couple's therapy with a certified EFT therapist to develop a rational-empirical model of alliance rupture repair in EFT. The final model and treatment implications are discussed. / Master of Science

The purpose of this research is to discuss the Guanxi among the partners of strategic alliance, the influence on the degree of the trust among the strategic alliance partners caused by Guanxi, and the influences on the alliance performance and on the willing to cooperate in the future caused by the degree of the trust. As the internationalization and liberalization developing, many industries aware of the limitation of their own resources. A company is no longer able to compete with others alone, so they try to forge the strategic alliances to get the important resources to achieve their strategic goals. On the other side, the operation of the strategic alliances is deeply influenced by the trust and the interactions among partners. This trust could be broken due to the major differences on the organization cultures and on the management style in different partners, or due to the bad communications. The alliance could be broken because of the lack of the trust. The relationship between Guanxi and Chinese sociality is very closed. For Chinese enterprises, the development of the Guanxi can be the mechanism to overcome both the completion and the shortage of the resources. The managers in Chinese sociality are specially good at manipulate the Guanxi to construct the trust in an organization. They not only rely on the original Guanxi of the relatives and the acquaintances, but also expand the area of connections among people via the introduction of the intermediates. If both managers of two companies of strategic alliances have the interpersonal Guanxi, the degree of the trust between the strategic alliance partners will be higher. This research not only builds a theoretical framework by making a complete survey, but also verifies this framework by collecting and analyzing 112 effective questionnaires according to the structural equation model, SEM. The results show that the differences of basic types of the Guanxi among the alliances will be affected by the degree of the closeness and by the degree of the trust (including benevolence trust and credibility trust, from family, acquaintances, to strangers, in the descending order). The past cooperative experience of the alliance partners and the common interpersonal relationship are also able to affect the degree of the trust. There are also positive influences on the alliance performance for the degree of the trust among alliances (including the degree of satisfaction on the cooperative relationship and the degree of completion of the goals). And this degree of the trust among the alliances and the alliance performance are of the positive influences on the willing for alliances to cooperate in the future. Because the strategic alliance in essence is both competition and cooperation, the companies must carefully consult and discuss with each other when progressing the forge of the strategic alliances. Based on the Guanxi, the alliance partners should enhance the trust and the understanding between each other. If the alliances partners could be sufficiently trusted, it is believed that the alliance performance can be improved and the win-win can be fully achieved.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Logos Evangelical Seminary, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-267).