The effect of alliance-focused training on a cognitive-behavioral therapy for personality disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To improve success rates in psychotherapy, we developed and evaluated an alliance-focused training (AFT) protocol with regard to patient-therapist interpersonal behavior in a 30-session protocol of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for outpatients comorbid with Axis I and II conditions.

Method

Participants included 40 patients treated by 40 therapists in a multiple baseline design in which novice therapists trained to fidelity standards in CBT were introduced to AFT at different time intervals (after either 8 or 16 sessions) during a 30-session CBT protocol. Interpersonal behaviors were assessed with a simplified version of the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) on videotaped sessions sampled from the early (between Sessions 6 through 8), mid (Sessions

SUBMITTER: Muran JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901896 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature