A meta-analysis of the relation between therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome in eating disorders.
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Graves TA
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Tabri N
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thompson-Brenner H
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Franko DL
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Eddy KT
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Bourion-Bedes S
Centre Hospitalier Lorquin, Lorquin, France.
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Brown A
Eating Disorder Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Constantino MJ
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.
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Flückiger C
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States and Institute fur Psychologie, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Forsberg S
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States.
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Isserlin L
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Couturier J
Pediatric Eating Disorders Program, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Paulson Karlsson G
Anorexia-Bulimia Eating Disorder Unit, The Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Mander J
ZZP Center for Psychological Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Teufel M
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany and Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
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Mitchell JE
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota, United States and University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.
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Crosby RD
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota, United States and University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.
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Prestano C
Niccolò Cusano University, Roma, Italy.
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Satir DA
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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Simpson S
School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy, University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia.
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Sly R
School of Nursing Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
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Lacey JH
Department of Health and Social Care Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Stiles-Shields C
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and The School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Tasca GA
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Waller G
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
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Zaitsoff SL
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
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Rienecke R
The University of Michigan Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
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Le Grange D
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States.
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Thomas JJ
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program (EDCRP), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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- The International journal of eating disorders. - 2017
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The therapeutic alliance has demonstrated an association with favorable psychotherapeutic outcomes in the treatment of eating disorders (EDs). However, questions remain about the inter-relationships between early alliance, early symptom improvement, and treatment outcome. We conducted a meta-analysis on the relations among these constructs, and possible moderators of these relations, in psychosocial treatments for EDs. Twenty studies met inclusion criteria and supplied sufficient supplementary data. Results revealed small-to-moderate effect sizes, βs = 0.13 to 0.22 (p < .05), indicating that early symptom improvement was related to subsequent alliance quality and that alliance ratings also were related to subsequent symptom reduction. The relationship between early alliance and treatment outcome was partially accounted for by early symptom improvement. With regard to moderators, early alliance showed weaker associations with outcome in therapies with a strong behavioral component relative to nonbehavioral therapies. However, alliance showed stronger relations to outcome for younger (vs. older) patients, over and above the variance shared with early symptom improvement. In sum, early symptom reduction enhances therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome in EDs, but early alliance may require specific attention for younger patients and for those receiving nonbehaviorally oriented treatments.
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