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As research has shown a consistent link between the alliance and the therapeutic success, an alliance-focused supervision was designed to help novice therapists improve their relational and collaborative abilities. Fifteen young therapists participated in the alliance-focused supervision and 15 did not. Therapists’ and clients’ results at the Working Alliance Inventory showed that the supervision model improved their perceptions concerning the therapist’s ability to foster mutual emotional involvement, as well as collaboration. All therapists demonstrated an ability to negotiate emotional alliance with the client. However, when they participated in the alliance-focused supervision, they appeared to improve their capacity to finding an agreement with the client around therapeutic goals, which was not the case when they did not participate. In addition, more independent views on the alliance appeared in clients and therapists when the professional took part in the alliance-focused supervision than when he/she did not. Results on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale also showed that participating in the alliance-focused supervision had a protective influence on therapists’ impulsiveness. Overall, alliance-focused supervision appeared useful in helping therapists improve emotional involvement and collaboration in the alliance. It also seemed to protect them from being impulsive.
Plantade-Gipch et al. (Sat,) studied this question.