Abstract
Purpose
In order to understand the nature of the therapeutic alliance in intensive case management, this study used qualitative methods
to assess the dynamics of the case managers’ relationships with their consumers by examining their perspectives on their own
and their consumers’ likeability, how helpful consumers perceive them to be, as well as their expectations for their relationships
with their consumers.
to assess the dynamics of the case managers’ relationships with their consumers by examining their perspectives on their own
and their consumers’ likeability, how helpful consumers perceive them to be, as well as their expectations for their relationships
with their consumers.
Conclusions
The current qualitative findings suggest that current constructions and measures of the therapeutic alliance developed in
psychotherapy research are not fully capturing the ways in which the unique structure and constraints of intensive case management
influence relationships between workers and consumers.
psychotherapy research are not fully capturing the ways in which the unique structure and constraints of intensive case management
influence relationships between workers and consumers.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Paper
- Pages 1-12
- DOI 10.1007/s00127-012-0483-z
- Authors
- Sara Bressi Nath, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, 300 Airdale Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA
- Leslie B. Alexander, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, 300 Airdale Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA
- Phyllis L. Solomon, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Online ISSN 1433-9285
- Print ISSN 0933-7954