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Ce mémoire porte sur l'alliance thérapeutique perçue par les jeunes, les parents et les intervenants en début d'intervention dans le cadre d'un programme d'intervention brève et intensive de crise. L'alliance thérapeutique est considérée comme un facteur favorisant la réussite des interventions offertes aux jeunes et aux familles en difficultés ou en situation de crise. Toutefois, il existe, à ce jour, peu de connaissances sur les caractéristiques des jeunes et des familles associées à l'alliance thérapeutique.Ce mémoire tente de pallier cette lacune en identifiant les caractéristiques des jeunes et des familles associées à l'alliance thérapeutique. L'échantillon à l'étude est composé de 123 familles ayant bénéficié du programme d'intervention CAFE en 2010-2011 dans un des sept Centres de la santé et des services sociaux (CSSS) de la Montérégie. Les résultats indiquent que le fait que le jeune et l'intervenant soient tous deux de sexe féminin, le ratio de flexibilité au sein de la famille et le manque de supervision parentale prédisent l'alliance thérapeutique évaluée par le jeune alors que le ratio de cohésion perçu à la fois par le jeune et le parent, le fait de vivre de nombreux évènements de vie stressants, la détresse cognitive chez le parent et la fréquence des conflits conjugaux perçue par le jeune prédiraient l'alliance perçue par le parent. Du coté de la perception de l'alliance par l'intervenant, l'engagement parental, perçu à la fois par le jeune et le parent, les évènements de vie stressants vécus par le parent et une relation parent-enfant détériorée sont associés à l'alliance thérapeutique, mais n'apparaissent pas comme étant des prédicteurs significatifs de l'alliance perçue par l'intervenant.

Clinical supervision is integral to promoting the professional development of counselors-in-training and gatekeeping the counseling services provided by counselor trainees (Bernard & Goodyear, 2014). Despite the value of studying participants’ retrospective perceptions about or reflections upon supervision, the supervisory process in which supervision transpires is infrequently quantified and measured (Holloway, 1982; Holloway, 1987). As described by most developmental supervision models, clinical supervision is “a process with sequential and qualitatively distinct stages through which supervisors and trainees progress” (Littrell, Lee-Borden, & Lorenz, 1976, p. 134). In order to capture these stages and phenomena with observable and measurable units, the author used six states of interest to measure the supervision process, which exhibit the progressively complex nature of clinical supervision. The six states include: (a) social interfacing (non-skills phase), (b) reflecting on foundational competencies, (c) deepening case conceptualization, (d) processing the relational management, (e) overcoming personal and multicultural barriers, and (f) furthering professional development. These states underpin the codebook of this study and are used to conceptualize the supervision process. Although the interactions between the supervisor and supervisee are transient and difficult to grasp, supervisory interactions move from one state to another. Indeed, state-transitional dynamics of clinical supervision are subject to a constellation of factors that supervisors and supervisees initially bring in and constantly reinforce, such as supervisory styles, supervisee developmental levels, supervisory working alliance, and supervisee satisfaction with clinical supervision. By using Markov chain analysis, this study detects the overall transitional dynamics of supervisory dyads and investigates how transitional dynamics vary based on the aforementioned variables that manifest themselves as supervision dynamics unfold and closely interface with other supervision variables. Results of this study provide implications for clinical supervisors, counselor educators, and counselors-in-training.

<p>The present dissertation comprises four empirical studies within the area of behavioral treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia. The focus is on studying issues pertaining to outcome, treatment process and determinants of change. The first study is a randomized controlled treatment study of 73 patients undergoing 16 sessions of either exposure in vivo (E), or cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Both treatments showed clear improvements at post-treatment that were well maintained at 1-year follow up, and there were no significant differences between the treatments.</p><p>The second study concerned prediction of outcome in the same sample. From a variety of pre-treatment characteristics severity of avoidance was the one most related to outcome. Most predictors were found unrelated. Two approaches of prediction were also compared: treating outcome as a categorical vs. continuous variable. The different approaches yielded a somewhat dissimilar picture of the impact of pre-treatment severity of avoidance. The third study examined different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, and their relation to outcome. Clients’ perceptions of therapists and their ratings of the working alliance were generally not related to outcome at any point. On the other hand, therapists’ perceptions of patients as showing goal-direction and active participation were related to outcome from early on in therapy. The fourth study examined different aspects of change. It was found that change in indices of the frequency of panic attacks was not closely related to change in agoraphobic avoidance at post-treatment. Change in avoidance was also more related to other aspects of outcome. At one-year follow-up, a more unitary picture, regarding the different aspects of change was observed.</p>

The present dissertation comprises four empirical studies within the area of behavioral treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia. The focus is on studying issues pertaining to outcome, treatment process and determinants of change. The first study is a randomized controlled treatment study of 73 patients undergoing 16 sessions of either exposure in vivo (E), or cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Both treatments showed clear improvements at post-treatment that were well maintained at 1-year follow up, and there were no significant differences between the treatments. The second study concerned prediction of outcome in the same sample. From a variety of pre-treatment characteristics severity of avoidance was the one most related to outcome. Most predictors were found unrelated. Two approaches of prediction were also compared: treating outcome as a categorical vs. continuous variable. The different approaches yielded a somewhat dissimilar picture of the impact of pre-treatment severity of avoidance. The third study examined different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, and their relation to outcome. Clients’ perceptions of therapists and their ratings of the working alliance were generally not related to outcome at any point. On the other hand, therapists’ perceptions of patients as showing goal-direction and active participation were related to outcome from early on in therapy. The fourth study examined different aspects of change. It was found that change in indices of the frequency of panic attacks was not closely related to change in agoraphobic avoidance at post-treatment. Change in avoidance was also more related to other aspects of outcome. At one-year follow-up, a more unitary picture, regarding the different aspects of change was observed.

abstract: Home visitation programs are growing in popularity for a variety of social concerns including early childhood abuse and neglect. Healthy Families Arizona (HFAz) uses the home visitation format to deliver early-childhood development and parenting skills for at-risk parents with the goal of decreasing incidents of child abuse and neglect (Daro & Harding, 1999). Some research demonstrates that the strength of the worker’s alliance with parents can be significantly predictive of home visitation program completion and decreases in depression for participating mothers, but these findings have little replication (Girvin, DePanfilis, & Daining, 2007). It is important to have a clear understanding of worker-client alliance and how it affects maternal outcomes including program retention and completion so that those working with home visitation interventions can implement programs from an evidence-based perspective, thus increasing efficiency and efficacy of programs. This study hypothesizes a significant relationship exists between Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) scores and Healthy Families Parenting Inventory scores, and that WAI scores predict maternal outcomes from the HFPI. Bivariate correlation analysis determined a significant positive relationship exists between WAI scores and home visitation completion rates (r=0.320, p= .042), and found no other significant relationships. Regression analysis found WAI scores are predictive home visitation completion. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Social Work 2015

Syftet med studien var att beskriva arbetsalliansens funktion i familjebehandlares arbete ur behandlarens perspektiv för att bidra till kunskapsdiskussionen om arbetsalliansens betydelse inom socialt arbete. Studiens frågeställningar var vilken betydelse arbetsallians har för familjebehandlares uppdrag samt vilka faktorer som har betydelse för hur arbetsallians skapas, vidmakthålls och avslutas på ett bra sätt i arbetet med familjer. Med en fenomenologisk ansats genomfördes kvalitativa, halvstrukturerade intervjuer med sex familjebehandlare verksamma inom socialtjänsten. Respondenterna delgav nyanserade beskrivningar av arbetsalliansens betydelse för familjebehandling. Studiens resultat analyserades utifrån socialkonstruktionism, systemteori och anknytningsteori. Studiens centrala resultat var att familjebehandlarna upplevde arbetsalliansen som mycket betydelsefull i sitt arbete. Studiens resultat ligger i linje med psykoterapiforskningen som också betonar arbetsalliansens betydelse för att uppnå ett positivt behandlingsresultat. / The aim of this study was to describe the function of a working alliance in the social work of family therapists in order to make contribute to the knowledge discourse of the importance of working alliance in social work. The questions were what of importance the work alliance is in the task of family therapists and what the important factors are in how to create, sustain and end a working alliance in a good way within the social work with families. Interviews were pursued with six family therapists. The respondents described the function of the working alliance from their perspective. The result was analysed with social construction theory, system theory, attachment theory and a multidimensional perspective. The central result of the study was that the therapists experienced that the working alliance was of great importance in their work which is in agreement with psychotherapy research which emphasise the importance of a working alliance in order to reach a good result of the therapy.

Inledning: Olika terapimetoder erbjuder olika sätt att hjälpa patienterna. ISTDP utmärker sig genom att vara offensiv och som i alla metoder tillskrivs alliansen en viktig roll. Det är terapeuter som ska jobba med alliansen men hur de upplever den, vilka likheter och olikheter de ser i de metoderna de jobbar med har knappast uppmärksammats. Studiens syfte är att belysa psykodynamiska psykoterapeuters syn på alliansen i både ISTDP och klassisk psykodynamisk psykoterapi. Frågeställningar: Hur ser kliniskt verksamma psykodynamiska psykoterapeuter på den terapeutiska alliansen i både klassisk psykodynamisk psykoterapi och ISTDP ser? Vilka är de skillnader och likheter i hur de skapar och upprätthåller den? Metod: Sex legitimerade psykodynamisk utbildade psykoterapeuter som är utbildade i ISTDP har intervjuats. Data samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Grundad teori användes som metod för bearbetning och analys och materialet. Resultat: Skillnaderna finns i behovet av ram och kontrakt samt metodiken. En könsskillnad finns i synen på möjligheten att engagera sig, i tillskrivning av interventionernas betydelse för alliansskapandet och hur begrepp allians, anknytning och emotionell kontakt används. Likheter gäller betydelsen av terapeutens engagemang, kompetens och patientens problematik. Diskussion: Resultatet diskuterats utifrån terapeutens syn på alliansen. Terapeutens engagemang och patientens problematik samt hur metodiken påverkar alliansutvecklingen har diskuterats. Upplevelsen av att kunna skapa och upprätthålla alliansen har diskuterats utifrån tydlighet och ett könsperspektiv. / Introduction: Different therapy methods provide different help. ISTDP is distinguished by being more intensive and, as in all methods, also here alliance is important. Therapists are the one who are working with the alliance but how they experienced it, what similarities and differences there are in the different methods they work with, has rarely been investigated. The goal with the study is to illustrate psychodynamic psychotherapists view on alliance in both ISTDP and classic psychodynamic psychotherapy. Questions: How do clinically effective psychodynamic psychotherapists see the therapeutic alliance in both classic psychotherapy and ISTDP? What are the differences and similarities in how they create and maintain it? Method: Six licensed psychodynamic psychotherapists who also are educated in ISTDP have been interviewed. The research is based on grounded theory. Result: Differences that are found are the need for contract and frame and how the method is applied. A gender difference is in the therapist's view of the possibility of engagement, in ascribing signification to the interventions that bring about alliance and in the way alliance, attachment and emotional contact has been used. Similarities are regarding the importance of therapist's engagement, competence and patient's problems. Discussion: The result was discussed on base of the therapist's view upon alliance. Therapist's engagement and patient's problems as well as how the method has an impact on creating the alliance has been discussed. Therapist's experience of being able to create and maintain the alliance has been discussed from a gender perspective and legibility.

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