Therapeutic working alliance in brief therapy with college students: In-person versus telemental health

This study compared the therapeutic working alliance in brief counseling using two delivery methods: synchronous video delivery and in-person delivery. The alliance was measured using the Working Alliance Inventory (client version). Participants were 49 undergraduate college students between the ages of 18 and 22. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy was the treatment protocol, and the study used a randomized, controlled design. Welch’s t-tests and non-inferiority analyses were conducted, in addition to hierarchical regression analyses to examine the predictive value of the working alliance on post-treatment anxiety. Non-inferiority statistical analyses indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in working alliance for online delivery compared to in-person. A hierarchical regression anaIysis suggests that the therapeutic working alliance contributed to anxiety treatment outcomes for college student participants., Dataset was collected through pre and post Working Alliance Inventory assessments, as well as Beck's Anxiety Inventory assessments, in Qualtrics. Data was exported to SPSS where Welch's t-tests and non-inferiority analyses were conducted, as well as hierarchical regression analyses.Dataset was managed and accessible to authors only., , \# Therapeutic Working Alliance in Brief Therapy with College Students: In-Person versus Telemental Health

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzspt](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b2rbnzspt)

 

This dataset includes responses of participants on the Beck’s Anxiety Inventory BEFORE the intervention, AFTER the intervention (3 solution-focused brief therapy counseling sessions) and at 3-week follow-up after end of the study. It also includes the results of the Working Alliance Inventory after one counseling session and after the final, 3rd counseling session. In addition, the delivery of counseling (whether in-person TAU or telemental health-experimental) is indicated. Finally, we looked at scores on the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS) re: anxiety. This allowed us to compare both the working alliance between in-person and telemental health and also the efficacy (changes in Beck’s anxiety scores) using t-tests and regression analyses.

 

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