Attachment Style and Empathy: Therapist Characteristics That Influence the Working Alliance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mana Samghabadi ◽  
James E. Sexton ◽  
Marc J. Diener
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Therapist Characteristics

scholarly journals Model of the Relationships between Supervising Working Alliance, Counseling Self-Esteem and Attachment Styles

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Ahmad Al- Shraifin
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

The study aimed to explore the causal relationships between supervising working alliance, counseling self-esteem and attachment styles through a causal model adopting a path analysis method. The study sample consisted of 289 counseling students at Yarmouk University. Three scales were administered to measure the supervising working alliance, self-esteem and attachment styles.  Results showed a direct relationship between avoidant attachment styles and supervising working alliance, and an indirect relationship with counseling self-esteem. There was a direct relationship between secure attachment style, supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem; and between supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem.  In addition, direct and indirect relationships were evident between avoidant attachment style and special relationship domain of supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem; whereas it affected client focus domain with a direct relationship. Direct relationships also were evident between secure attachment styles, the relationship domain and self-focus domain.  

Reciprocal Empathy and Working Alliance in Terminal Oncological Illness: The Crucial Role of Patients’ Attachment Style

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Calvo ◽  
Arianna Palmieri ◽  
Sara Marinelli ◽  
Francesca Bianco ◽  
Johann R. Kleinbub
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Reciprocal Empathy

scholarly journals Therapist Attachment and the Working Alliance: The Moderating Effect of Emotional Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desireé Ruiz-Aranda ◽  
Sara Cardoso-Álvarez ◽  
Javier Fenollar-Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Working Alliance Inventory ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: To explore whether the therapist’s emotional regulation strategies moderate the relationship between therapist attachment and the working alliance from the therapist’s perspective.Method: A non-experimental, descriptive correlational design was used. Sixty-three psychotherapists (6 men, 57 women) participated in this study, ranging in age from 27 to 69 years, with a mean age of 39.3 years. The therapists completed the Attachment evaluation questionnaire for adults, the Spanish Adaptation of the Working Alliance Inventory, and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Associations between attachment and emotional regulation traits and working alliance were examined using multilevel modeling, controlling for therapist demographics, and clinical experience.Results: Moderation analyses revealed significant interaction effects between therapist attachment and emotional regulation strategies.Conclusion: Attachment styles would not significantly affect the therapist’s ability to establish an adequate therapeutic alliance bond. The results show that the attachment style of the therapists interacted with their emotional regulation abilities.

A meta-analysis of the relation between patient adult attachment style and the working alliance

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha L. Bernecker ◽  
Kenneth N. Levy ◽  
William D. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Adult Attachment Style
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