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  • The working alliance in supported employment for people with severe mental health problems

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    Waghorn, Geoff
    Souza, Tara
    Rampton, Nicole
    Lloyd, Chris
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    Lloyd, Chris A.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    Aims: This study examined the utility of the Working Alliance Inventory Short form (WAI-S) for measuring the working alliance between supported employment service providers and service users with severe mental health problems. Methods: Service users (n=32) and their respective service providers (n=17, 32 pairs) from five supported employment services independently rated their working alliance using the WAI-S. Findings: There was little correlation at item, factor, and total score levels, and low agreement between service users and service providers on 11 of 12 working alliance items of the WAI-S. Conclusions: These findings ...
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    Aims: This study examined the utility of the Working Alliance Inventory Short form (WAI-S) for measuring the working alliance between supported employment service providers and service users with severe mental health problems. Methods: Service users (n=32) and their respective service providers (n=17, 32 pairs) from five supported employment services independently rated their working alliance using the WAI-S. Findings: There was little correlation at item, factor, and total score levels, and low agreement between service users and service providers on 11 of 12 working alliance items of the WAI-S. Conclusions: These findings challenge the validity of the working alliance construct in this context, suggesting that both the WAI and the WAI-S may not be optimal measures of the working alliance in supported employment. The contextual differences between psychotherapy and supported employment, and the greater divergence of user-provider perceptions, imply that the working alliance in supported employment may differ from the alliance in psychotherapy. Researchers are encouraged to investigate the nature of the working alliance in supported employment rather than project characteristics identified in other settings.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    6
    Publisher URI
    http://www.ijtr.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/library/article.cgi?uid=42434;article=IJTR_16_6_315_323
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 MA Healthcare. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Clinical Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40091
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