Background Chronic and mental health conditions are increasingly prevalent worldwide. As
devices in our everyday lives offer more and more voice-based self-service, voice-based …

Measurement properties of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and its various translations
and adaptations for specific target groups have been investigated for over 30 years. No …

Objective: Prior research has established that common therapeutic relationship factors are
potent predictors of change in psychotherapy, but such factors are typically studied one at a …

Background: Successful management of chronic diseases requires a trustful collaboration
between health care professionals, patients, and family members. Scalable conversational …

Objective: Therapeutic alliance is one of the most stable predictors of outcome in
psychotherapy, regardless of theoretical orientation. The alliance–outcome relationship in …

Objective: Developments in working alliance theory posit that the therapist's attention to
fluctuations in the alliance throughout treatment is crucial. Accordingly, researchers have …

The working alliance may be relevant in unguided smartphone-based interventions, but no
validated measure exists. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the six-item Digital …

Client–therapist synchrony in various channels (eg, self-reported affect or physical
movement) has been shown as a key process in the construction and development of …

The working alliance (WA) has been widely identified as the key concept for psychotherapy
and allied health care services. The WA, measured at different phases of diverse kinds of …

Abstract Objective: The Working Alliance Inventory short form (WAI-S) is one of the most
commonly used alliance measures with adolescents. Yet, its factor structure has received …