Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective
BackgroundThe therapeutic alliance (TA) is considered a common psychotherapeutic factor associated with positive results in psychotherapies. There are no studies relating the TA with quality of life (Qol).ObjectivesOur objective was to evaluate whether there is an association between the TA and Qol...
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| author | Guilherme Kirsten Barbisan Guilherme Kirsten Barbisan Luiza Zamban de Pieri Leonardo Gonçalves Leonardo Gonçalves Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças Neusa Sica da Rocha Neusa Sica da Rocha |
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| description | BackgroundThe therapeutic alliance (TA) is considered a common psychotherapeutic factor associated with positive results in psychotherapies. There are no studies relating the TA with quality of life (Qol).ObjectivesOur objective was to evaluate whether there is an association between the TA and Qol across three different psychotherapies.MethodsA cross-sectional study, which included outpatients undergoing individual psychotherapeutic treatment was conducted. When analyzing the total sample, the correlation of the TA with Qol domains did not present statistical significance. When considering only the sample of patients who were undergoing treatment in psychodynamic psychotherapy (PP), there was a statistically significant association between the TA and the psychological domain of Qol (p < 0.05). When using a regression model for adjusting for confounding factors, the association between psychological domain with the TA on the PP patients sample lost significance (p = 0.221).DiscussionThese findings suggest that the TA seems to be more strongly related to better QoL in PP. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6b5ca01943340399eb3d3e944eea6562022-12-22T04:10:01ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-01-011210.3389/fpsyt.2021.613627613627Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's PerspectiveGuilherme Kirsten Barbisan0Guilherme Kirsten Barbisan1Luiza Zamban de Pieri2Leonardo Gonçalves3Leonardo Gonçalves4Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças5Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças6Neusa Sica da Rocha7Neusa Sica da Rocha8Postgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, BrazilBackgroundThe therapeutic alliance (TA) is considered a common psychotherapeutic factor associated with positive results in psychotherapies. There are no studies relating the TA with quality of life (Qol).ObjectivesOur objective was to evaluate whether there is an association between the TA and Qol across three different psychotherapies.MethodsA cross-sectional study, which included outpatients undergoing individual psychotherapeutic treatment was conducted. When analyzing the total sample, the correlation of the TA with Qol domains did not present statistical significance. When considering only the sample of patients who were undergoing treatment in psychodynamic psychotherapy (PP), there was a statistically significant association between the TA and the psychological domain of Qol (p < 0.05). When using a regression model for adjusting for confounding factors, the association between psychological domain with the TA on the PP patients sample lost significance (p = 0.221).DiscussionThese findings suggest that the TA seems to be more strongly related to better QoL in PP.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.613627/fullpsychotherapyquality of lifetherapeutic alliancetherapeutic relationshipoutcome |
| spellingShingle | Guilherme Kirsten Barbisan Guilherme Kirsten Barbisan Luiza Zamban de Pieri Leonardo Gonçalves Leonardo Gonçalves Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças Cinthia Danielle Vasconcelos Rebouças Neusa Sica da Rocha Neusa Sica da Rocha Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective Frontiers in Psychiatry psychotherapy quality of life therapeutic alliance therapeutic relationship outcome |
| title | Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective |
| title_full | Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective |
| title_short | Positive Association Between Therapeutic Alliance and Quality of Life in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy: The Patient's Perspective |
| title_sort | positive association between therapeutic alliance and quality of life in psychodynamic psychotherapy cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal therapy the patient s perspective |
| topic | psychotherapy quality of life therapeutic alliance therapeutic relationship outcome |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.613627/full |
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