Psychology · Clinical & Abnormal Psychology
A topic within Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Edward S. Bordin
Redefines the therapeutic alliance as three separable components - agreement on goals, agreement on tasks, and an emotional bond - and argues this pantheoretical structure applies across every school of therapy, not just psychoanalysis.
Christoph Flückiger, Alberto C. Del Re, Bruce E. Wampold & Adam O. Horvath
A meta-analysis of hundreds of studies finding the therapeutic alliance reliably predicts outcome across very different types of therapy, updating three decades of smaller reviews with a larger and more rigorously coded evidence base.
link checked 17 Sept 2026