Working Alliance, Treatment Satisfaction, and Patterns of Posttreatment Use Among Adolescent Substance Users
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
This longitudinal study examined the relationships among the working alliance, treatment satisfaction, and posttreatment use among adolescents in treatment for substance abuse. Adolescents (N = 600) from the Cannabis Youth Treatment study (M. L. Dennis et al., 2002) completed measures of working alliance and treatment satisfaction as well as substance use and substance-related problems at intake and 3, 6, 9, 12, and 30 months' postintake. When controlling for initial substance use and substance-related problems, working alliance, but not treatment satisfaction, predicted use at 3 and 6 months' postintake. Neither working alliance nor treatment satisfaction were predictive of longitudinal patterns of posttreatment use. Implications for the assessment of working alliance and treatment satisfaction are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Tetzlaff, Brooke T.; Kahn, Jeffrey H.; Godley, Susan H.; Godley, Mark D.; and Diamond, Guy S., "Working Alliance, Treatment Satisfaction, and Patterns of Posttreatment Use Among Adolescent Substance Users" (2005). Faculty Publications – Psychology. 35.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fppsych/35
Comments
This article was originally published as Tetzlaff, B. T., Kahn, J. H., Godley, S. H., Godley, M. D., Diamond, G. S., & Funk, R. R. (2005). Working alliance, treatment satisfaction, and patterns of post-treatment use among adolescent substance users. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19(2), 199–207. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-164X.19.2.199.