The relationship between psychological help seeking attitudes, therapeutic alliance and psychopathological characteristics and schemas of abuse and neglect adolescents.

The current study aimed to examine the relation between psychological help seeking attitude and psychopathological traits; psychological help seeking attitude and early maladaptive schemas; therapeutic alliance and psychopathological traits; therapeutic alliance and early maladaptive schemas. Data was collected from 65 children between the ages 12 and 18. Correlation results between "Symptom Check List (SCL90-R)" and "Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help, SF (ATSPPH-SF)" and "Working Alliance Inventory-Patient Form (WAI-PF)" were that while "Interpersonal Sensitivity", "Anxiety", "Somatization", "Paranoid Thoughts" ve "Obsesive-Compulsive Symptoms" getting higher psychological help seeking attitudes and therapeutic alliance getting lower. The other correlation results between "Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form3 (YSQ-SF3)" and "ATSPPH-SF" and "WAI-PF" were that "Approval Seeking/Recognition Seeking" and "Punitiveness" schemas were positively relationed with psychological help seeking attitudes. Also "Emotional Deprivation" schema was assisting in identifing common goals of therapy; "Punitiveness" schema led to an increase in all three aspects of therapeutic alliance. "Approval Seeking/Recognition Seeking" schema caused to therapeutic relation alliance.