Abstract
Evidence-Based Psychology would be incomplete if the role of the therapeutic relationship was not investigated.However, the absence of adapted instruments impedes the development of empirical studies in thelocal context. The principal objective of this work was to adapt the patient version of the Revised HelpingAlliance Questionnaire (HAq-II). As an additional objective a comparison of three theoretical models oftherapeutic alliance was carried out. After translating the items and evaluating their equivalency via a panelof experts, the HAq-II was administered to a sample of 119 participants undergoing brief psychotherapy.The results of the confirmatory factorial analysis suggest an underlying model of two dimensions: positivebond with the therapist (? = .70) and goal and task agreement (? = .71). It should be noted that this modelfits coherently with the theories proposed by Luborsky and Bordin.
