The association between quality of therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in teletherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CONCLUSION: Very few teletherapy treatment studies were identified that initially reported on alliance-outcome associations, underlining that this is an under-researched area. The association between alliance-teletherapy outcomes in this meta-analysis was small but significant, and somewhat weaker than the alliance-outcome associations reported for in-person treatments and other online interventions. This might indicate that there are other processes at play in teletherapy that explain variance of treatment outcomes, or that the therapist (and the relationship) has less influence on the treatment outcomes than in in-person therapy.PMID:38636207 | DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102430
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research