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Article: Does Relationship Counselling for One Work? An Effectiveness Study of Routine Relationship Counselling Services Where Only One Individual Attends
Title | Does Relationship Counselling for One Work? An Effectiveness Study of Routine Relationship Counselling Services Where Only One Individual Attends |
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Keywords | family functioning individual relationship counselling multilevel modelling psychological distress relationship status therapeutic alliance |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Citation | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2021, v. 42, n. 3, p. 320-335 How to Cite? |
Abstract | There are no published studies investigating the effectiveness of relationship counselling (RC) where only one individual attends (individual relationship counselling (IRC)), in improving client psychological distress (PD). This is important to investigate considering the high prevalence of PD in this client group and the potential for its negative effects to cascade into other domains of an individual’s life. The current study aims to address this gap by investigating the short-term effectiveness of IRC on PD. This study further builds on previous research by investigating variables that may explain changes in counselling outcomes, including client demographics, interpersonal factors, and therapeutic factors. Data were collected from a national sample of 273 individuals presenting for RC at an Australian not-for-profit organisation. Results from multilevel modelling showed a significant reduction in PD over time with moderate effect size. Further, relationship status, family functioning, and the Task subscale of the Working Alliance Inventory emerged as significant predictors of PD. The results of this study have important implications for routine practice in informing opportunities to target these key variables as an avenue to increasing the effectiveness of IRC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/330721 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.277 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lohan, Aditi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cao, Yuan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Petch, Jemima | - |
dc.contributor.author | Murray, Jennifer | - |
dc.contributor.author | Howe, Elizabeth | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-05T12:13:35Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-05T12:13:35Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2021, v. 42, n. 3, p. 320-335 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0814-723X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/330721 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There are no published studies investigating the effectiveness of relationship counselling (RC) where only one individual attends (individual relationship counselling (IRC)), in improving client psychological distress (PD). This is important to investigate considering the high prevalence of PD in this client group and the potential for its negative effects to cascade into other domains of an individual’s life. The current study aims to address this gap by investigating the short-term effectiveness of IRC on PD. This study further builds on previous research by investigating variables that may explain changes in counselling outcomes, including client demographics, interpersonal factors, and therapeutic factors. Data were collected from a national sample of 273 individuals presenting for RC at an Australian not-for-profit organisation. Results from multilevel modelling showed a significant reduction in PD over time with moderate effect size. Further, relationship status, family functioning, and the Task subscale of the Working Alliance Inventory emerged as significant predictors of PD. The results of this study have important implications for routine practice in informing opportunities to target these key variables as an avenue to increasing the effectiveness of IRC. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy | - |
dc.subject | family functioning | - |
dc.subject | individual relationship counselling | - |
dc.subject | multilevel modelling | - |
dc.subject | psychological distress | - |
dc.subject | relationship status | - |
dc.subject | therapeutic alliance | - |
dc.title | Does Relationship Counselling for One Work? An Effectiveness Study of Routine Relationship Counselling Services Where Only One Individual Attends | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/anzf.1458 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85112113873 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 42 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 320 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 335 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-8438 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000683606000001 | - |