S. B. Robbins (1995) provided a thought-provoking response to the article (B. Mallinckrodt, D. L. Gantt, & H. M. Coble, 1995) that described the development of the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS). In this reply, recent elaborations of attachment theory are reviewed as applied to adult close personal relationships, and points of similarity and difference between the attachment-based constructs measured by the CATS and measures of client working alliance and transference are clarified.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Mallinckrodt et al. (1995) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: