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Predicting the Impact of Supervisory Alliance on Client Outcome

We now know quite a bit about the impact of therapy working alliance impacting client outcome.

Does the dynamic of working alliance in clinical supervision work the same way? Does supervisory alliance predict client outcome?

This is what Yun Lu and Dennis Kivlighan Jr sought to find out in a recent 2026 study published in Psychotherapy Research: Predicting Treatment Process and Outcome Using Temporal Dynamics of Supervisory Working Alliance. (Full paper available in ResearchGate).

In today’s Unpicking the Research series, I’d take you through what this excellent study found, why this is…

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