Uno strumento per l’osservazione dell’alleanza terapeutica nelle terapie di coppia e familiari: il SOFTA-o. Validazione italiana

Titolo Rivista TERAPIA FAMILIARE
Autori/Curatori Lucia Porcedda
Anno di pubblicazione 2023 Fascicolo 2022/130
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 20 P. 77-96 Dimensione file 728 KB
DOI 10.3280/TF2022-130005
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L’obiettivo del presente articolo è quello di presentare i risultati dello studio di validazione italiana del SOFTA-o (System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances; Friedlander et al., 2006), uno strumento osservativo utile per la valutazione dell’Alleanza Terapeutica (AT) nelle terapie congiunte, familiari e di coppia. Tale strumento si basa sull’osservazione dei comportamenti correlati all’AT raggrup- pati in quattro macro-dimensioni: Coinvolgimento nel Processo Terapeutico, Connessione Emotiva con il Terapeuta, Sicurezza nel Sistema Terapeutico e Sen- so di uno Scopo Condiviso all’interno della Famiglia. Il SOFTA-o rappresenta uno strumento utile a scopi di ricerca, di formazione dei giovani terapeuti fami- liari e di supervisione clinica. Al fine di evidenziare le potenzialità dello strumen- to nella prassi clinica, la parte finale del presente studio si focalizzerà su alcuni esempi di applicazione pratica.;

Keywords:SOFTA-o, Alleanza Terapeutica, Terapia di coppia e familiare, ricerca, formazione, supervisione clinica

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Lucia Porcedda, Uno strumento per l’osservazione dell’alleanza terapeutica nelle terapie di coppia e familiari: il SOFTA-o. Validazione italiana in "TERAPIA FAMILIARE" 130/2022, pp 77-96, DOI: 10.3280/TF2022-130005