Psychotherapy Process and Relationship in the Context of a Brief, Attachment-Based, Mother-Infant Intervention

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dc.contributor.authorWoodhouse, Susan S.
dc.contributor.authorLauer, Maria
dc.contributor.authorBeeney, Julie R. S.
dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Jude
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T14:49:21Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T14:49:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description©American Psychological Association, 2015. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037335en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study investigated links between the observer-rated process of psychotherapy and 2 key psychotherapy relationship constructs (i.e., working alliance and attachment to the therapist) in the context of a brief, attachment-based, home-visiting, mother–infant intervention that aimed to promote later secure infant attachment. Additionally, links between observer ratings of intervener and mother contributions to process were examined. Participants included 85 economically stressed mothers of first-born, 5.5-month-old, temperamentally irritable infants. Therapists included 2 doctoral-level and 4 master’s-level home visitors. Observer-rated therapist psychotherapy process variables (i.e., warmth, exploration, and negative attitude) were not linked to maternal ratings of working alliance. Therapist warmth, however, was positively associated with maternal ratings of security of attachment to the therapist, and therapist negative attitude was positively related to maternal ratings of preoccupied-merger attachment to the therapist. As expected, both therapist warmth and exploration were positively associated with both maternal participation and exploration. Therapist negative attitude was inversely related to maternal exploration, but not to maternal participation. Results support the idea that attention to the psychotherapy process and relationship may be important in the context of a brief home-visiting parenting intervention with a nonclinical sample. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1037/a0037335
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ipyr-nmz6
dc.identifier.citationWoodhouse, S. S., Lauer, M., Beeney, J. R. S., & Cassidy, J. (2015). Psychotherapy process and relationship in the context of a brief attachment-based mother-infant intervention. Psychotherapy, 52(1), 145–150.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28541
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Behavioral & Social Sciencesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtPsychologyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectPsychotherapy Processen_US
dc.subjectPsychotherapy Relationshipen_US
dc.subjectWorking Allianceen_US
dc.subjectAttachmenten_US
dc.subjectParenting Interventionen_US
dc.titlePsychotherapy Process and Relationship in the Context of a Brief, Attachment-Based, Mother-Infant Interventionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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