작업동맹 형성 요인 탐색: 내담자 표상분열 및 상담자-내담자 언어 상호작용을 중심으로

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The working alliance has been one of the most important issues of counseling research because it predicts outcomes in psychotherapy. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of splitting as a client’s pre-treatment characteristics, the counselor-client verbal interaction, and the working alliance rated by the client. To explore the research questions, eleven cases were collected in a university-based counseling center in Korea. Correlation analysis and Sequential analysis were used in the study. In addition, analysis of Collaborative Interactions Scale Index were carried out. The main findings of this study are as follows. The working alliance did not differ by the level of splitting in clients. The counselor-client verbal interaction, however, varied by the level of splitting in clients and was related to working alliance. These results indicate that counselor’s interactions competence played a key role in developing a client’s perception of the working alliance. When clients had higher level of splitting, there were high indexes of counselor’s positive intervention and counselors responded to their clients’ rupture responses with positive interventions. In addition to conclusion, the limitations of the study were discussed and future research was suggested.

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