The therapeutic alliance, which is nothing more than the feeling between the psychologist and the patient, the feelings that unite their interaction in consultation. Hartley in 1985, he defined the therapeutic alliance as a relationship made up of the real relationship and the working alliance, the actual relationship alludes to the client-therapist relationship, while the latter refers to the ability of both to work together with the objectives (Ardito, RB, & Rabellino, D. (2011).
Creating a good therapeutic alliance with the patient is a good predictor of success in therapy, which is created through therapeutic alliances and much that has to do with the behavior of the therapist with the patient. Where the basis of this relationship is that the patient needs to be understood and accepted, even if this is not all serves to begin to create a good essential link for therapy, since the objectives to follow is to help the client.
As therapists, we must take into account that we are the ones that have to handle the situations in the consultation, and for that, we must pay attention in particular areas that will allow us to have a good therapeutic relationship during the consultation.
One of these central areas is the unconditional acceptance of the patient; who from the moment he …show more content…
Rogers (1951) defines what is considered to be the active components in the therapeutic relationship: empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard. (Ardito, R. B., & Rabellino, D. (2011). For this, it is also important that the therapist can see the patient from his point of view, to see with the eyes of the patient the problem and not with the eyes of the therapist. The quality of the therapist's empathy and reciprocal affective tuning are variables that the patient appreciates better than the