The Argentinean Version of the Working Alliance Inventory - IAT-A

WAIZMANN, VANINA; SERRANO, SEBASTIÁN; ESPÍNDOLA, ISABEL; ROUSSOS, ANDRES

Santiago de Chile

Congreso; 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research; 2009

Society for Psychotherapy Research

The goal of this poster is to present a specific version of the Working Alliance Inventory Observer Form, (WAI-O) in Spanish, for its use in Argentina To achieve the adaptation, the original English scale (Horvath, 1981; Horvath & Greenberg, 1986, 1989) was used together with the Chilean version (Santibáñez, 2003) and the Spanish version (Andrade, in preparation) of the WAI in their Therapist and Patient Form. Also, a crossed translation was realized from English to Spanish, and back to English in order to stay the most loyal to the original version of the scale. Therapists from different theoretical frames and levels of experience received informed consents (for both participants of the dyad), and a form for personal details. As for the psychometric properties of the scale, we are currently evaluating whether the reliability and types of validity are adequate.