title: Short form of the revised Vanderbilt therapeutic alliance scale: development, reliability, and validity.
abstract: This study presents the development and psychometric properties of a five-item version of the revised Vanderbilt Therapeutic Alliance Scale (VTAS-R Short Form). A total of 255 alliance ratings, derived from therapy sessions from 86 cases of family therapy for substance-abusing adolescents, were used to generate two separate subsamples. The first subsample was used to develop the five-item form and the second subsample to estimate the measure's reliability and concurrent and predictive validity. The VTAS-R Short Form evidenced high internal consistency, was highly correlated with the full-length VTAS-R, and predicted treatment completion and adolescents' days of cannabis use at 3 months follow-up. The findings suggest that the VTAS-R Short Form is a reliable and valid alternative to the full-length form.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Karni
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shelef
authors.forename: Gary M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Diamond
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires