Toward differentiating client attachment from working alliance and transference: Reply to Robbins (1995).

S. B. Robbins (see record 1995-42475-001) provided a thought-provoking response to the article (B. Mallinckrodt, D. L. Gantt, and H. M. Coble; see record 1995-42468-001) that described the development of the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS). In this reply, recent elaborations of attachment theory are reviewed as applied to adult close personal relationships, and points of similarity and difference between the attachment-based constructs measured by the CATS and measures of client working alliance and transference are clarified. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)