Effective bonds in therapy

I briefly described in the preface, the four components of the working alliance (Bordin, 1979) as follows:

bonds refer to the interpersonal connectedness between therapist and client;

views refer to the understandings that both participants have on salient issues; ¹

goals refer to the purpose of therapeutic meetings;

tasks refer to the procedures carried out by both therapist and client in the service of the latter’s goals.