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TOPIC: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE Name: Institution Abstract The research paper address issues related with therapeutic alliance; therapeutic alliance refers to the mutual relationship that exists between a therapist and his/her client during psychotherapy. This context has three prominent components common goals of the therapy by the therapist and the client, an agreement on the tasks that should be undertaken to accomplish the goals, and mutual understanding between the two parties which is important in ensuring progress during therapy. Therapeutic alliance is thus an important construct during therapy and if it is considered early before the treatment begins success is almost guaranteed. This research paper focuses on the prevailing ideas surrounding therapeutic alliance; which are important to consider in predicting whether a therapy success is possible. Introduction Debates on therapeutic alliance are likely to create a link between traditional “believers†and those professionals subscribing to recently-emerging evidence that the collaborative, working relation between client and clinician carries more weight in the outcome than specific models/interventions: This debate is likely to reflect clinicians using collaborative relationship in treatment and those using specific models and interventions are that of use of convectional procedures. The use of models requires that each model is used at a specific stage...