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Outcomes of Systemic/Strategic Team Consultation:
Author(s) -
GREEN ROBERTJAY,
HERGET MARY
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00321.x
Subject(s) - alliance , psychological intervention , neutrality , intervention (counseling) , psychology , structuring , psychotherapist , style (visual arts) , session (web analytics) , therapeutic relationship , systemic therapy , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , business , political science , archaeology , advertising , law , finance , cancer , breast cancer , history
This is the third in a series of reports on a small‐sample study of systemic/strategic team consultations. It sheds new light on aspects of the therapeutic alliance in Milan‐informed therapy. Ratings of the end‐of‐session interventions and ratings of the therapist's relationship skills (warmth, active structuring) significantly predicted client improvement at 1‐month and 3‐year followups. These results dispute the Milan team's idea that an intervention's effects are unpredictable. Also, our findings challenge the way some teams have adopted an impersonal, emotionally unresponsive style under the guise of “neutrality.” In view of this and other recent studies, we conclude that systemic/strategic therapists should devote more attention to collaborative and affective qualities of the therapeutic alliance.