June 2017

Client congruence in therapy and its association with mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship

In order to investigate clients’ role in the mutuality of therapeutic encounter, this pilot study examined data from 49 participants who had undergone at least three sessions of therapy. The participants completed the Working Alliance Inventory and the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills. As hypothesised, higher levels of mindfulness were associated with enhanced working alliance. All three dimensions of the...

Author(s): Itai Ivtzan and Stephen Joseph