Background In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the
therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings …

Extensive analyses of data from the remarkably comprehensive data set established by the
Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program (TDCRP), initiated and …

Abstract A. Bellg, B. Borrelli, et al.(2004) previously developed a framework that consisted of
strategies to enhance treatment fidelity of health behavior interventions. The present study …

In support of the inference that psychotherapies produce their benefit by nonspecific means,
researchers cite two sets of empirical findings:(a) null results from comparative outcome …

The authors describe psychometric characteristics of the new Therapy Process
Observational Coding System-Alliance scale (TPOCS-A; BD McLeod, 2001) and illustrate its …

The therapeutic alliance is an established predictor of psychotherapy outcome. However,
alliance research in the treatment of eating disorders has been scant, with even less …

In this commentary (on the article by DeRubeis, Brotman, and Gibbons, see record 2005-
05431-009), three key theses are advanced. First, the presence or absence of differences …

The relationship between therapeutic alliance, therapist adherence to treatment protocol,
and outcome was analyzed in a randomized trial of cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) and …

Techniques based on cognitive therapy and electroencephalography (EEG) were used to
investigate the predictive utility of EEG alpha power with regard to mood improvement …

Issues related to establishing specificity in psychotherapy are discussed. It is suggested that
the null hypothesis that the specific ingredients are responsible for the benefits of …