Alliance

What Matters? The Alliance Once Again

A trusting therapeutic relationship and outcome-oriented collaboration between therapist and patient are critical for the successful...

What is Treatment?

Historically we have always been very fixated on modality-or type of therapy- and have always assumed that this is responsible for...

Creating Helping Relationships That Matter

Relationships in and of themselves make a huge difference to treatment outcomes. The American Psychological Association have just...

The Role of Emotional Expression in Treatment Outcomes

I discuss the role of emotions in change and treatment outcomes. Particularly the importance of naming emotions in the here and now in...

Have I Told You About My Self-Disclosure?

I get asked about the issue of self-disclosure a lot in training. It is one of those difficult grey areas where people are never sure of...

Beyond the Alliance: Understanding the "Real" Relationship

The Therapeutic Alliance has always been found to be the central driver of outcomes in treatment studies, regardless of modality. But is...

Ruptures in the Alliance Matter

Anyone who has heard me speak on treatment outcomes will know of my proclivity to stress the importance of alliance in treatment...

Phil Harris