Bruce Wampold

It's like actually part of the engine that's driving the change.

So this fits what a guy named Bruce Wampold called the contextual model, which is the idea that intervention works through relationship, through positive expectancy, and through getting the person to take adaptive action.

And this is not a face-to-face only phenomenon anymore.

So there's some research in 2023 that showed that the alliance outcome link holds up through digital and blended care models as well, which is good for us because I think a lot of us are doing virtual intakes and feedbacks, even if we're doing in-person testing.

You want it to be something that you're doing in conjunction with your client.

And this is really where a lot of the common factors work by Bruce Wampold comes in, that being able to have a good therapeutic alliance that works with a, not a fixed system where you kind of lay out everything from the beginning as far as here's what treatment's going to be and telling your client exactly what it's going to be, but more along the lines of hey, we are agreeing on what we're working on, we're agreeing on how we're going to solve those problems, and we're gonna openly talk about how well we're doing that, ends up being really kind of the core basis to have effective therapy, and it allows for both you and your client to have a good input on

that.

And, you know, going into the Modern Therapist archives, we'll link into an episode that really gets into that piece of it a lot more in our show notes over at mtsgpodcast.com.