WORKING ALLIANCE

What do I understand by the “working alliance”? How does my understanding enhance my integrative practice?

What do I understand by the “working alliance”? How does my understanding enhance my integrative practice?

Introduction

Working alliance is broadly relates with psychotherapy research as the effective bond and collaborative between client and therapist, this is the condition that considerably to the therapeutic process (Baron et.al, 2011, p. 847). The working alliance is the found to predicting the success of psychotherapy and counseling, underpinning, theoretical regardless and the across clients with having disorder variety (Lapworth, et al, 2001). The person with having abuse problem, working alliance development in early treatment has consisted with predictor of retention in treatment and successful management, but inconsistent is predictor comes out from post treatment (Hycner, 1993).

There are the majority of the studies which describes working alliance and its effect come out from the psychotherapy research. Conversely, there has been undertaken for examine nature relationship between therapist and client. This paper will discuss the diversity on counseling in black disable African women, who is married to the white men and blessed with mixed race children.

Discussion

Working alliance overview

Working alliance has been used for the construction since from the mid of twenty first century, but this is not investigated empirically. There are some theories that exist about the working alliance for grew of attention to transferring psychoanalysis. Study suggests that there are certain qualities that exist in the relationship which provide sufficient and necessary change of conditions (Lapworth, et al, 2001). Moving with working alliance with any particular theoretical camps has described Pantheoretical model of working alliance. This description has emphasized and focus on their client therapist which contributes with clients, model of Bordin has looks to the dyadic interaction of both therapist and clients and it also brought attention to the importance of task and goal component that occurs through this alliance.

The term working alliance which has been used for describing the relationship between client and therapist, working alliance and helping alliance. There is some major difference, and most of these definitions have relates to three different common themes which are affective bond among therapist and client, natural collaborative relationships and therapist ability on the treatment of task and goals (Khan & Khan, 2007).

Contemporary approach for working alliance has represented a spectrum that ranges from classical psychoanalytic framework which is based on the positive reference model to become more based on reality of working alliance relationship (Davis & Love, 2011, p. 445). Introduction of this term working alliance is to forcing towards the attachment of reality based in the positive transference component relationship. He stresses the collaboration between psychoanalyst and patient starts working purposefully together in the situation of certain therapy.

Karis & Teri, (2003) has been noted earlier that from the past decades, the psychotherapy research has found that the working alliance is one most common factor which is responsible for change in clients in all the psychotherapy forms. This is emphasizing on collaboration and applicable for other helping processes besides psychotherapy ...