“It’s not a life of war and conflict”: experienced therapists’ views on negotiating a therapeutic alliance in involuntary treatment
Abstract Background Working alliances are considered to be essential to treatment, and they represent a robust predictor of positive treatment outcomes. In a working alliance, a patient and therapist agree upon treatment decisions, which can raise a series of challenges when patients are in involunt...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Annals of General Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12991-019-0234-6 |