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- Title
Outcomes of Systemic/Strategic Team Consultation: III. The Importance of Therapist Warmth and Active Structuring.
- Authors
GREEN, ROBERT‐JAY; HERGET, MARY
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
FAMILY psychotherapy; NEUTRALITY; INTERPERSONAL relations; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Family Process, 1991, Vol 30, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00321.x