Cirasola, Antonella;
Martin, Peter;
Fonagy, Peter;
Eubanks, Catherine F;
Muran, J Christopher;
Midgley, Nick;
(2022)
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: an empirical case study.
Psychotherapy Research
10.1080/10503307.2022.2061314.
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Abstract
Most research on alliance rupture-repair processes in psychotherapy has been carried out with adults and little is known about the alliance dynamics with adolescents, especially in psychodynamic treatments. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to better understand the process of alliance rupture–resolution and its role in a good-outcome case of a depressed adolescent treated with short-term psychoanalytic-psychotherapy (STPP). METHOD: A longitudinal, mixed-methods empirical single-case approach was employed. Multiple sources of information (questionnaires, interviews, sessions recordings) from various perspectives (adolescent, therapist, observer) were assembled and analysed. RESULTS: The different sources of evidence converged and showed that, despite the presence of frequent alliance ruptures, patient and therapist managed to resolve these and develop a good and collaborative relationship. Both patient and therapist regarded the evolution in their relationship as the treatment factor mainly responsible for the positive changes experienced by the adolescent. Based on both theoretical and empirical data, a preliminary model of how to explore and repair alliance ruptures in STPP is presented. CONCLUSION: This study illustrates one way of applying an empirical, mixed-method approach to a single case. Its finding supports the idea that the process of repairing ruptures is an important mechanism of change. Strengths, limitations, and possible implications are discussed.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: an empirical case study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10503307.2022.2061314 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2061314 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Alliance, alliance ruptures, rupture resolutions, short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy, adolescent depression, single case |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146120 |
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