Patient and mentor language style matching as a predictor of working alliance, engagement with treatment as usual, and eating disorders symptoms over the course of an online guided self-help intervention for anorexia nervosa.
Gaia AlbanoLaura SalernoValentina CardiTimo BrockmeyerSuman AmbwaniJanet TreasureGianluca Lo CocoPublished in: European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association (2022)
These findings suggests that in the early phase of treatment relational aspects can impact on engagement with treatment. Verbal attunement in a GSH for AN is associated with working alliance and better clinical outcome.