A 22-year-old patient arrives for an appointment in an outpatient clinic. The nurse practitioner knows that the therapeutic alliance is important to successful treatment. Which of the following is true regarding the therapeutic alliance? Asking the patient for more information about a topic is damaging to the therapeutic alliance Summarizing the patient’s affect is rude and damages the working relationship The therapeutic alliance is strengthened when the therapist talks more, and the patient talks less The therapist should ask the patient’s perspective on the working relationship