Although the therapeutic alliance is a consistent predictor of psychotherapy outcomes, research has not distinguished between the roles of patient and therapist variability in the alliance. Multilevel models were used to explore the relative importance of patient and therapist variability in the alliance as they relate to outcome among 331…

This descriptive study of the attribution of value in verbalizations of participants in eight group therapy sessions consisted of a series of controversies over whether target persons or people outside the group, whom target persons complained about, should be disparaged. Target persons generally described themselves as not deserving…