title: Trainees' conjugal family experience, current intergenerational family relationships, and the therapeutic alliance.
abstract: This study examines the relationship between trainees' conjugal family experience, current intergenerational family relationships, and the client's perception of the therapeutic alliance. Participants were 74 first practicum family therapy trainees, representing two family therapy programs, and 90 clients. Results indicated a moderately significant relationship between conjugal family experience and trainees' reported intergenerational intimacy with parents. Additionally, clients whose therapists had conjugal family experience reported a slightly more favorable therapeutic alliance than clients whose therapists did not have conjugal family experience. Additionally, trainees with conjugal family experience reported more current intimacy and individuation than nonconjugal trainees and felt less intimidated by their parents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4225, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sivo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004493:Education; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011368:Professional-Family Relations