Trust the therapists' trust: working alliance development in relation to treatment attendance and completion in intimate partner violence perpetrator group therapy
The findings clearly indicate the importance of a positive working alliance from the start of group IPV perpetrator treatment, and that therapists should be on the alert if they perceive the working alliance as suboptimal because it predicts poorer attendance and dropout.
Authors
- Paul Lodder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-7853)
- C.A. van Tilburg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-204X)
- Nathan Bachrach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0746-2692)
- Corine de Ruiter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-9790)
- Arno van Dam
Institutions
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- GGZ Westelijk Noord-Brabant (NL)
- RINO Zuid (NL)
- GGZ Oost Brabant (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychotherapy Research
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2025.2548501
- Primary Topic
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00