Hello Jonathan!

My master dissertation was about Internet Therapy and Working Alliance.
I've used the WAI (working alliance inventory) to measure the quality of
the alliance.
At my study the alliance did predict outcome (participation in therapy)
I have an article in english here:
http://www.psico.net/arquivos/

The results were very similar to what is found in face-to-face therapy.
And I think that WAI is a good instrument that can be used to support
other kinks of measures. (I found some studies that does this).

Regards

PS: what about FIAT and FAPRS? when they will be available ?


Jonathan W. Kanter wrote:

>JoAnne,
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>I really like this idea. If I understand it correctly, the primary outcome of
>interest would be the quality of the therapeutic relationship (e.g, the
>alliance). So the idea is: Does FAP training improve the therapeutic
>alliance? There are lots of ways to measure the alliance including
>client-report and observer (video-tape)-based, so you can have multiple outcome
>measures. It seems like a very clever idea - given that the alliance predicts
>outcome in lots of studies, can we actually provide a training that improves
>the alliance? Now I want to do a study like that, too!
>
>The second question is: Does FAP training improve therapeutic skill? I'm not
>sure how you would measure skill, but you could certainly measure if the
>student therapist engages in FAP techniques after FAP training. In that case
>the question is: Does FAP training actually lead to use of FAP techniques? A
>simple question to ask but useful I think.
>
>The third question you describe has to do with the FIAT but I'm not quite sure
>what you were writing there. Please clarify.
>
>The final question has to do with symptom function outcome measures, which
seems
>great except hard to do given only 3-4 sessions of therapy!
>
>Jonathan
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>
>Quoting JoAnne Dahl <jo_anne.dahl@...>:
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