The objective of this study was to investigate the role of therapeutic alliance on suicide ideation as outcome measure in a brief therapy for patients who attempted suicide. Sixty patients received the 3-session therapy supplemented by follow-up contact through regular letters. Therapeutic alliance was measured with the Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAQ). Outcome at 6 and 12 months was measur...

Prompted by a real-life observation in the UK retail market, a two-player Prisoners’ Dilemma model of an alliance between two firms is adapted to include the response of a rival firm, resulting in a version of a three-player Prisoners’ Dilemma. We use this to analyse the impact on the stability of the alliance of the rival’s competition, either with the alliance or with the individual partners....

Conflict is the key factor to affect investment and benefits of the industry technologies and innovation strategic alliance. This paper constructs an investment decision model of industry technology innovation strategic alliance by discussing the influence of the conflict on the alliance generic technology investment and the impact of member benefits. The results suggest that maximize revenue o...

BACKGROUND The therapeutic alliance is related to better course and outcome of treatment in schizophrenia. This study explores predictors and characteristics of the therapeutic alliance in recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders including the agreement between patient and therapist alliance ratings. METHODS Forty-two patients were assessed with demographic, neurocognitive, and clinical ...

The Working Alliance Inventory-Short Revised (WAI-SR) is a recently refined measure of the therapeutic alliance that assesses three key aspects of the therapeutic alliance: (a) agreement on the tasks of therapy, (b) agreement on the goals of therapy and (c) development of an affective bond. The WAI-SR demonstrated good psychometric properties in an initial validation in psychotherapy outpatient...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that following from the premise that knowledge comprises the fundamental source of competitive advantage, this study provides results of a meta-analysis that examines whether and how alliance performance is influenced by the role knowledge plays in a strategic alliance. Design/methodology/approach – Meta-analysis is employed as the driving methodol...

OBJECTIVE Advanced statistical tools have created the opportunity to systematically examine the effect of early trajectories in predictors of therapeutic change, such as early alliance development patterns, on outcome. To date, however, these methods have been used almost exclusively to examine the effect of the development of early symptoms on later ones. Development patterns of alliance early...

Over the past decades alliance activity among companies has reached unsurpassed levels. In spite of this strong increase in alliance activity, success rates of alliances have been surprisingly low. In this paper we study two main lines of research that aim to explain alliance performance; i.e. research that has stresses the role of trust and personal interaction in inter-organizational relation...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between patients' object relations and interpersonal process in psychotherapy. Namely, we tested the hypothesis that the quality of patients' object relations is positively associated with both patient- and therapist-rated alliance quality. DESIGN Psychotherapy was administered naturalistically, with quantitative data collection before and durin...

BACKGROUND Most conventional treatment for musculoskeletal conditions continue to show moderate effects, prompting calls for ways to increase effectiveness, including drawing from strategies used across other health conditions. Therapeutic alliance refers to the relational processes at play in treatment which can act in combination or independently of specific interventions. Current evidence gu...