The relation between the working alliance on mental illness and criminal thinking among justice-involved people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders.

Conclusions: These findings expand the literature on the relation between working alliance and changes in mental illness symptoms by testing this association in the understudied population of justice-involved people with mental illness; these results also suggest the working alliance is associated with changes in criminal thinking. Treatment providers working with justice-involved people with mental illness should assess and emphasize the development of a working alliance to maximize treatment change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research