The relation between the therapeutic alliance and communicative intentions in therapeutic interaction during the initial phase of adolescent therapy.

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. The sample comprised the first three sessions of 19 adolescents' individual psychotherapeutic processes. Fifty therapeutic conversation segments were analyzed, representing 2043 adolescent and 3208 therapist speaking turns.