Assessing the alliance-outcome association adjusted for patient characteristics and treatment processes: A meta-analytic summary of direct comparisons.

ABSTRACT: The alliance is widely recognized as a robust predictor of posttreatment outcomes. However, there is a debate regarding whether the alliance is an epiphenomenon of intake characteristics and/or treatment processes occurring over the course of treatment. This meta-analysis aimed to synthesize the evidence on this issue. We identified 125 effect sizes in 60 independent samples (6,061 participants) of studies that reported alliance-outcome correlations as well as parallel intake or process characteristics. We examined the impact of these potential confounds on the alliance-outcome correlations. We meta-analyzed the studies estimates by computing omnibus effects models as well as multivariate models. We identified 3 variable types that were used to adjust the alliance-outcome correlations: (a)

SUBMITTER: Fluckiger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529648 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature