Enhancing the Alliance: Skills That Build a Stage-Matched and Culturally Responsive Relationship
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5 hours
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Overview
This interactive course provides a framework you can begin using right away to enhance the therapeutic alliance with your clients. The framework includes: 1) stage-matched care to identify a person’s stage of recovery and stage of change to respond accordingly; 2) cultural humility to ground your relationship in diversity and recognize power differences; and 3) specific skills to build a sense of presence and nurture client motivation.
Learning objectives
- Discuss the role of the alliance in client outcomes
- Describe and apply stage-matched care
- Describe stages of recovery
- Define cultural competence, humility, and how the social location of the practitioner and client can influence the therapeutic alliance
- Identify and describe the 8 skills that enhance the alliance between practitioners and clients, including how and why they are important
- Apply the alliance-enhancing skills using stage-matched care and cultural humility
- Describe the barriers practitioners and clients may experience in building a mutually trusting working alliance
Professional credit
- This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
- 5.0 CEs are available.
- Additional details can be found in the activity document for this resource.
Added on 8/26/2025