Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Program

Counseling Psychology

Content Description

1 online resource (ix, 122 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Myrna L. Friedlander

Committee Members

Alex L. Pieterse, Laurie Heatherington

Keywords

Adolescent Substance Abuse, Brief Strategic Family Therapy, Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Therapy Retention, Family psychotherapy, Teenagers, Short-term counseling, Therapeutic alliance

Subject Categories

Psychology

Abstract

This mixed-methods study was designed to explore how the therapeutic alliance may influence retention in conjoint family therapy with adolescent drug abusers. Eight videotaped first sessions from a large-scale effectiveness study of Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT; Robbins, Feaster, Horigan et al., 2011) were selected in which four trained BSFT therapists saw one family that continued in treatment and one family that dropped out after that session.

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