Exploring Actor–Partner Interdependence in Family Therapy: Whose View (Parent or Adolescent) Best Predicts Treatment Progress?

dc.contributor.authorFriedlander, Myrna L.
dc.contributor.authorKivlighan Jr., Dennis M.
dc.contributor.authorShaffer, Katharine S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T15:16:26Z
dc.date.available2017-10-18T15:16:26Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractPredictions of family therapy outcome consistently vary depending on which client rates the alliance. We used the actor–partner interdependence model (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) to test the interdependence of parents’ and adolescents’ ratings of alliance, session depth/value, and improvement-so-far after Sessions 3, 6, and 9. Initial analyses found trivial between-therapists variance; therefore, a 3-level hierarchical model partitioned the variance in these variables into between families, between family members, and between session components. For alliance and session depth, results showed a significant parent actor effect and a significant adolescent partner effect. Specifically, when parents saw a stronger alliance, they also saw the session as more valuable, but when adolescents saw a stronger alliance, their parents saw the session as less valuable. Both the parents’ and the adolescents’ improvement scores showed significant linear growth over time, and adolescents’ alliance ratings were positively associated with their own and their parents’ views of therapeutic progress.en_US
dc.format.extent8 Pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2FN10T49
dc.identifier.citationFriedlander, M.L., Kivlighan, Jr., D. M., & Shaffer, K.S. (2012). Exploring Actor-Partner Interdependence in Family Therapy: Whose View (Parent or Adolescent) Best Predicts treatment progress? Journal of Counseling Psychology, 39, 168-175.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7339
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Counseling Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjecttherapeutic allianceen_US
dc.subjectworking allianceen_US
dc.subjectfamily therapyen_US
dc.subjectactor–partner interdependenceen_US
dc.titleExploring Actor–Partner Interdependence in Family Therapy: Whose View (Parent or Adolescent) Best Predicts Treatment Progress?en_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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