The therapeutic alliance and personality dysfunction in offending behaviour programs Kozar, Christina 2014, The therapeutic alliance and personality dysfunction in offending behaviour programs, Ph.D.(Psych) thesis, School of Psychology, Deakin University. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads kozar-therapeuticalliance-2015A.pdf Connect to thesis application/pdf 5.28MB 508 Title The therapeutic alliance and personality dysfunction in offending behaviour programs Author Kozar, Christina Institution Deakin University School School of Psychology Faculty Faculty of Health Degree name Ph.D.(Psych) Thesis advisor Day, Andrew Date submitted 2014-12 Keyword(s) therapeutic alliance offending behaviour programs therapists personality dysfunction therapeutic opportunities Summary  Therapists in offending behaviour programs use a range of strategies to develop the therapeutic alliance to promote treatment collaboration. They described significant difficulties, however, in responding to personality dysfunction. Analysis of treatment sessions revealed therapists often attempted to engage clients but did not often use ruptures in the alliance as therapeutic opportunities or attend to withdrawn clients. Recommendations are made to better support correctional therapists utilise the alliance to maximise treatment Language eng Field of Research 170104 Forensic Psychology Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Description of original 393 pages : tables Copyright notice ©The Author. All Rights Reserved Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30079092 Document type: Thesis Collections: Higher degree theses (Open Access) Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 23 Oct 2015, 10:03:07 EST Fri, 06 Nov 2015, 08:02:14 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 08:34:28 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 08:35:54 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 08:37:18 EST Thu, 09 Mar 2017, 07:14:38 EST Thu, 09 Mar 2017, 09:05:26 EST Thu, 02 Aug 2018, 09:52:12 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:56:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 180 Abstract Views, 513 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 23 Oct 2015, 10:02:56 EST by Kate Percival