La relazione di alleanza con l’adolescente: centralità della motivazione

Many authors studied patients' motivation associated with the therapeutic process, confirming the importance of motivation, within the therapeutic allliance, in relation with therapeutic compliance and efficacy of therapy. The aim of the study is to evaluate the motivation, within alliance relationship with adolescents, during the diagnostic process and to analyse the relation between motivation and following adolescents' therapeutic compliance and clinical evolution. The Authors present a case report study about 50 adolescents seen in the service they work in. The service is mainly diagnostic and adolescents who need therapy are mostly sent to other public or private services. They are adolescents, aged from 12 to 18, who, after a diagnostic iter, were suggested to go into psychotherapy. Results suggest that, working with adolescents, motivation is important because it influences both therapeutic compliance and clinical evolution; then it is very important to pay attention to patient's motivation since the diagnostic moment.