Working alliance

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A working alliance is a social contract about cooperation. The term goes back to psychoanalysis and is also used in school education .

Psychoanalysis

Here the working alliance is characteristic of the cooperation between therapist and client in therapy. It represents a concept that, in psychoanalysis and gestalt therapy , is opposed to the re-enactment of traumatic and conflictual situations and desires of the analysand as the realistic part of the relationship.

school

A working alliance in the classroom regulates the rights and obligations between teachers and students, performance expectations and the resulting consequences. In social work , such an alliance defines “the establishment or agreement of rules and goals in the cooperation between social worker and client . It is “ the goal of an initial interview in the initial phase of problem solving ”.

Individual evidence

  1. Heiner Legewie (1998): Hermeneutische Diagnostik.WS 1998/99. 7th lecture: Theory of interviewing (PDF file; 191 kB)
  2. a b Hilbert Meyer (2004): Characteristics of good teaching (HTML page)
  3. http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/projekte/slex/seitendvd/konzepte/l50/l5027.htm