The following paper aims to study the therapeutic alliance between professional counselors working in healthcare and their patients. The purpose of the study is to develop an understanding of how the professional counselors treat clients to create an alliance, how they act when the alliance is deemed damaged and how they follow up the alliance to the client. The study is a qualitative study and to collect data, semi-structured interviews were designed with eight counselors who work in health care. To analyze the data, a thematic analysis was used. The results show that the counselors create alliance to their clients by building trust using a range of character and personality traits and strategies where the characteristics that the counselor and/or the patient possess can influence the difficulty of success. To repair a ruptured alliance, the professional may pause and consider a new approach, discuss the patient's reaction, use metacommunication or backtrack and apologize as strategies. The results show that counselors tend to follow up the alliance with their patients. For the most part, the follow up is done verbally by asking questions about the patient's experience of the meeting. The follow up can take place before, during or after the meeting.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-122725 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Björkesjö, Martin, Karlsson, Sebastian |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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