Associations between clinicians' emotional responses, therapeutic alliance, and patient suicidal ideation.
countertransference
suicidal ideation
suicide
suicide prevention
therapeutic alliance
Journal
Depression and anxiety
ISSN: 1520-6394
Titre abrégé: Depress Anxiety
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9708816
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2020
03 2020
Historique:
received:
11
12
2018
revised:
15
09
2019
accepted:
02
10
2019
pubmed:
16
11
2019
medline:
21
11
2020
entrez:
16
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Mental health clinicians frequently experience intense negative emotional responses to suicidal patients, which have been related to treatment outcome. This study examines the therapeutic alliance as a mediator of the relationship between clinicians' negative emotional responses at the initial encounter and patients' suicidal ideation (SI) concurrently and 1 month later. We assessed 378 adult psychiatric outpatients (62.7% female; mean age = 39.1 ± 14.6 years) and their 61 treating clinicians. Following the initial encounter, self-report questionnaires assessed clinicians' emotional responses to their patients, patients' and clinicians' perception of the therapeutic alliance, and patients' SI. The SI was reassessed 1 month after the initial visit. Multilevel mediation analyses were performed. Patients' (but not clinicians') perception of the therapeutic alliance mediated the relationship between clinicians' negative emotional responses to patients and patients' SI 1 month following the initial visit (indirect effect estimate = 0.015; p < .001). The association between clinicians' negative emotional response and patients' prospective SI appears to be transmitted, at least partly, through the patients' perception of the poorer early quality of the therapeutic alliance. Thus, clinicians' awareness and management of their emotional states appear essential both for the identification of suicidal risk and to enhance therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Mental health clinicians frequently experience intense negative emotional responses to suicidal patients, which have been related to treatment outcome. This study examines the therapeutic alliance as a mediator of the relationship between clinicians' negative emotional responses at the initial encounter and patients' suicidal ideation (SI) concurrently and 1 month later.
METHODS
We assessed 378 adult psychiatric outpatients (62.7% female; mean age = 39.1 ± 14.6 years) and their 61 treating clinicians. Following the initial encounter, self-report questionnaires assessed clinicians' emotional responses to their patients, patients' and clinicians' perception of the therapeutic alliance, and patients' SI. The SI was reassessed 1 month after the initial visit. Multilevel mediation analyses were performed.
RESULTS
Patients' (but not clinicians') perception of the therapeutic alliance mediated the relationship between clinicians' negative emotional responses to patients and patients' SI 1 month following the initial visit (indirect effect estimate = 0.015; p < .001).
CONCLUSIONS
The association between clinicians' negative emotional response and patients' prospective SI appears to be transmitted, at least partly, through the patients' perception of the poorer early quality of the therapeutic alliance. Thus, clinicians' awareness and management of their emotional states appear essential both for the identification of suicidal risk and to enhance therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
214-223Subventions
Organisme : American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
ID : #RFA-1-015-14
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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