Measuring the Real Relationship in Psychotherapy: Initial Validation of the Therapist Form.

Abstract

The development and initial validation of a therapist-rated measure of the real relationship in psychotherapy (the Real Relationship Inventory-Therapist Form [RRI-T]) is reported. Using a sample (n ϭ 80) of practicing psychotherapists and on the basis of prior theory, the authors developed a 24-item measure consisting of 2 subscales (Realism and Genuineness) and a total score. This 24-item version and other measures used for validation were completed by 79 additional practicing therapists and 51 counseling graduate students (n ϭ 130). The RRI-T was found to have high reliability and sound initial validity. As theorized, the RRI-T correlated significantly with measures of working alliance, session outcome (depth and smoothness), client intellectual and emotional insight, and client negative transference. Discriminant validity was supported by a nonsignificant relation to social desirability.

Therapeutische alliantie: de tpocs-anl

“…In dit artikel wordt met het concept therapeutische alliantie verwezen naar zowel de band als de taken in de therapie. De band verwijst naar de persoonlijke relatie of hechting tussen therapeut en clie¨nt (Gelso e. a., 2005;Shelef e.a., 2005). Met de taak wordt gedoeld op de overeenstemming tussen therapeut en clie¨nt over de benodigde therapieactiviteiten die beiden dichter bij de therapiedoelen brengen (Bordin, 1979;Horvath & Luborsky, 1993).…”

WELLFOCUS PPT: Modifying positive psychotherapy for psychosis.

“…For clinicians, self-disclosure is more frequently considered in relation to risk of boundary violation rather than being a positive opportunity to facilitate change. This softening of the clinician role to include sometimes being less role-based -and perhaps more 'real' (Gelso et al, 2005) -mirrors the change being asked of group participants, whose problems of course remain but are being invited to develop an identity as a person in recovery who can self-identify and use strengths (Davidson, Bellamy, Guy, & Miller, 2012).…”

A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the therapeutic alliance, empathy, and genuineness in individual adult psychotherapy.

“…Initial studies of the therapist version of the RRI revealed internal consistency at 0.89 for the total scale and 0.83 for the Genuineness portion (Gelso et al, 2005). It also had good concurrent validity when compared to measures of working alliance and session evaluation.…”

“…These are the Relationship Inventory (BLRI; Barrett-Lennard, 1962), the Truax Relationship Questionnaire (TRQ; Lin, 1973), and the Real Relationship Inventory (RRI; Gelso et al, 2005). For purposes of succinctness, I will only detail these three measures.…”

“…Only three studies obtained through the literature search contained relationship data between empathy and genuineness (Fuertes et al, 2007;Gelso et al, 2005; Zuroff & Blatt, 2006).…”