This study aims to examine the connection between the therapeutic alliance (TA) - from both the patient's and the therapist's perspectives - and communicative intentions during the initial phase of adolescent psychotherapy. ...

BACKGROUND: In Latin America, substance related disorders are highly prevalent and one of the treatment strategies is the Therapeutic Communities (TCs), however, in Latin America there is scarce data about this treatment ...

The Latin American MS Experts' Forum has developed practical recommendations on the initiation and optimization of disease-modifying therapies in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The recommendations ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of therapeutic bandages, the Kinesio Taping Method (KTM), in controlling swelling following arthroscopic tibio-patellofemoral surgery in horses. In vivo experimental study ...

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) aims to offer assistance to clinicians to improve drug dosing and clinical outcomes, while minimizing the probability of serious adverse effects in routine clinical practice. Disease ...

Despite decades of research on the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic alliance and their connection with therapeutic outcomes (Horvath, Del Re, Fluckiger, & Symonds, 2011), only a handful of studies have examined ...

The objective of this study is to explore the stability of personality dimensions in a selection of psychoactive substance abuse patients during treatment in therapeutic communities. The baseline assessment was conducted ...

The aim of the present single case study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of a therapeutic evaluation model (CTA) used for 4 years with a teenage girl (13-17 years of age) with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). ...