1. The Relation Between Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Motivation in Residential Youth Care: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis
- Author
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J. J. Roest, Geert Jan J. M. Stams, and G. H. P. van der Helm
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050103 clinical psychology ,Panel design ,05 social sciences ,General Social Sciences ,Structural equation modeling ,Clinical Practice ,Alliance ,Panel analysis ,Cross lagged ,Treatment motivation ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
This study investigated the longitudinal relation between therapeutic alliance and treatment motivation in a sample of 174 adolescents receiving residential treatment in the Netherlands. Structural equation modeling with a cross-lagged panel design was used to examine the relation between therapeutic alliance and treatment motivation up to 9 months of treatment. Results revealed that autoregressive associations between initial therapeutic alliance and alliance at subsequent time points were significant, whereas for treatment motivation a significant association was found after 6 months, but not after 9 months. Results also showed that a higher level of therapeutic alliance after 3 months was predictive of a higher level of treatment motivation after 6 months. Furthermore, a higher level of therapeutic alliance after 6 months was predictive of a higher level of treatment motivation after 9 months. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed.
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- 2016