Trauma therapist-in-training here... There has been an increasing amount of research in recent years on the importance of the “therapeutic alliance” - Bruce Wam

Trauma therapist-in-training here... There has been an increasing amount of research in recent years on the importance of the “therapeutic alliance” - Bruce Wampold has done a lot of work around this topic. There are also assessment tools that have been developed to help measure the strength of the therapeutic relationship, for example the “Working Alliance Inventory.” Measures like this may look at consensus among treatment goals; sense of confidence in the therapist; commitment to the work/relationship; mutual trust; actually liking of one another, etc. Not sure what type of measure or specific research was relied upon for the article (in fact I didn’t read it, was more interested in reading peoples’ comments actually), but hope that helps!