Aliança terapêutica em psicoterapia com crianças e adolescentes

: estudo exploratório sobre o impacto de variáveis do cliente

Abstract

The therapeutic alliance is an essential part of the therapeutic process, in almost all types of psychotherapy, nevertheless, few studies have reflected upon the impact of client variables on the therapeutic alliance in young clients. The present study to evaluate from a quantitative standpoint the impact of the client gender, prognostic, client’s age, diagnosis and number of completed sessions, on the perception of the therapeutic alliance of 40 therapists that work with children and adolescents. The data for this study was collected through an online questionnaire formulated by the researchers, and answered by the therapists. The data collected was subjected to nonparametric statistical analysis. In broad terms, the following study was able to verify the following: A) The therapist perception of the Relation component of the therapeutic alliance increases along the number of completed sessions. B) Young clients that presented internalizing disorders were perceived by the therapist as having higher values of the Task component of the therapeutic alliance. C) Therapist perceptions of the Objective component of the therapeutic alliance was superior in female clients. D) Therapist perceptions of the Relation component of the therapeutic alliance was superior in clients with a good prognostic. E) No relation between Therapist perceptions of the therapeutic alliance and age of the client was found.

Date of Award	17 Feb 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Pedro Dias (Supervisor)