Expectations regarding psychotherapy and therapeutic alliance in women with depression

The objective of the present study is to determine the relationship between psychotherapy expectations and early therapeutic alliance (first and third session) in women with depression in different cultural contexts (Chile and Germany), exploring the association between these variables and specific cultural variables such as dependent/interdependent self-construal, traditional/egalitarian sex role ideology, and the rigidity/laxness of social and familial norms. The sample consists of two groups of patients receiving psychotherapy, one in Chile and another in Germany. The first group is made up by 46 women diagnosed with depression, while the other consists of 30 female participants with the same diagnosis. The participants' age ranges between 20 and 50 years. The Chilean participants were contacted at Psicomédica, an outpatient mental health center in Santiago. They were receiving treatment which followed different theoretical psychotherapeutic approaches, once a week. The German women were recruited at the General and Psychosomatic Medicine Clinic (Heidelberg University Hospital), where they received inpatient treatment with a psychodynamic approach in two weekly sessions.
[Santiago: 2014]

Compartir: