B. Mallinckrodt et al., TOWARD DIFFERENTIATING CLIENT ATTACHMENT FROM WORKING ALLIANCE AND TRANSFERENCE - REPLY, Journal of counseling psychology, 42(3), 1995, pp. 320-322
S. B. Robbins (1995) provided a thought-provoking response to the arti
cle (B. Mallinckrodt, D. L. Gantt, & H. M. Coble, 1995) that described
the development of the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS). I
n this reply, recent elaborations of attachment theory are reviewed as
applied to adult close personal relationships, and points of similari
ty and difference between the attachment-based constructs measured by
the CATS and measures of client working alliance and transference are
clarified.