| Popis: |
Therapist empathy and the working alliance are two of the most potent predictors of therapy outcome (Horvath & Bedi, 2002; Martin, Garske, & Davis, 2000; Bohart, Elliott, Greenberg & Watson, 2002); yet the relationship among these variables is poorly understood. Using a random subset of 30 clients from the Vanderbilt 2 psychotherapy study (Strupp, 1993; Henry, Strupp, Butler, Schacht & Binder, 1993; and Henry, Schacht, Strupp, Butler and Binder, 1993) sample, the current study tested a mediational model in which empathy was predicted to have an influence on outcome indirectly through the alliance and directly, independent of the alliance. Bootstrap and Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis results supported the mediational role of the alliance in the relationship between empathy and therapy outcome; however, no direct effect of empathy on outcome independent of the alliance was found. |
