he Importance of Agreement in the Termination Process and its Association with Therapeutic Relationship and Change.

JULIETA OLIVERA; GÓMEZ PENEDO, JUAN MARTÍN; CHALLU, LAURA; ROUSSOS, ANDRES

Jerusalem

Congreso; 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research; 2016

Society for Psychotherapy Rsesearch

Aims: The present paper analyzes the association among early alliance negotiation and early improvement, studying the eventual moderator effect of baseline interpersonal problems in this relationship. Methods: Sixty-six patients diagnosed with emotional disorders completed the Alliance Negotiation Scale (ANS), and the Outcome Questionnaire.45 (OQ.45) after each of the four initial sessions of therapy, and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-64 (IIP-64) at baseline. We conducted 2-Level hierarchical linear models for analyzing (a) client?s early changes in OQ.45, (b) their association with alliance negotiation as a level-1 time-varying covariate, and (c) the effect of baseline IIP as a level-2 predictor of the association. Results: Clients have a significant linear reduction in OQ.45 during the first sessions, -0.06; t(65)= -4.22; p