Title
Working Alliances Promote Desirable Outcomes: A Study of Case Management in the State of Alabama in the USA
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
This study was an examination of clients' outcomes in community-based case management, specifically those outcomes' relationships to clients' characteristics and to working alliances between case manager and client. Study data were collected using a survey of adults who received help from community-based social service agencies (n=101). Results showed that client-case manager working alliances promoted improvement in client problems, although improvement was hindered by worsening problem severity. Clients' outcomes were not significantly associated with their health, mental health or substance-use problems, or with social support they enjoyed, or with their gender, ethnicity, age or agency serving them. Based on this study, working alliance is an effective, even essential, intervention alleviating clients' problems.
DOI
10.1093/bjsw/bcy030
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Cheng, Tyrone; Lo, Celia C.; and Womack, Bethany G., "Working Alliances Promote Desirable Outcomes: A Study of Case Management in the State of Alabama in the USA" (2019). Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 147.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/social-work-and-child-advocacy-facpubs/147