Resultado y proceso en psicoterapia cognitivo-constructivista integradora / Outcome and process in cognitive-constructivist integrative therapy

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an intensive study that combines statistical methods to test theoutcome and process of the psychotherapeutic treatments at the Servei d’Assessoramenti Assistència Psicológica Blanquerna in Barcelona, and it analyzes in detail the relatioship between outcome (improvement) and process (therapeutic alliance). Specifically the study analyzes (a) the psychotherapeutic process in terms of the relationship betweentherapeutic alliance and therapy outcome, and (b) the effect of therapeutic alliance rupturesand symptomatic worsening over therapy outcome and process. The clients included inthis study were 239 and the assessment instruments were the CORE Outcome Measureand the reduced version of the Working Alliance Inventory. Results indicate the goodoutome of therapy and the importante of different aspects of the therapeutic alliance as predictors of the therapeutic process (AU)