
Relationship Factors in Treating Personality Disorders
Tracey L. Smith, Marna S. Barrett, Lorna Smith Benjamin, and Jacques P. Barber (eds)
in Principles of Therapeutic Change That Work
Chapter 11 provides a comprehensive picture of the empirical evidence identifying aspects of the therapy relationship that enhance outcome when treating personality disorders (PDs). This ...
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General Guide to the ACT Therapeutic Context
Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin, and Clarissa W. Ong
in ACT in Steps: A Transdiagnostic Manual for Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This chapter provides an introduction to the worldview underlying the therapeutic context in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and how this worldview influences what ACT sessions ...
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Introduction
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
This chapter presents an introductory vignette from the author's own experience that illustrates the benefits of listening to and developing rapport with patients. It also outlines the ...
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Changes in Nonverbal Behavior During the Development of Therapeutic Relationships
Linda Tickle-Degnen and Elizabeth Gavett
in Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Settings
Chapter 4 addresses nonverbal behaviors in therapeutic relationships, and focuses on examining changes in nonverbal behavior during the development of therapeutic relationships. ...

Therapeutic Effect
William G. Herron
in Specialty Competencies in Psychoanalysis in Psychology
This chapter considers two main analytic techniques, interpretation and relating. There is some controversy regarding which provides the main therapeutic effect. The possibility is raised ...
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Working with Patients Who Have Been Sexually Abused by Previous Therapists and Clergy
Kenneth S. Pope
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 61 discusses considerations for working with patients who have been sexually abused by previous therapsis or members of the clergy, including the importance of preparation, common ...
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Patients Who Return to Psychotherapy
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
The final chapter is a discussion of patients who return to psychotherapy after termination, a topic often omitted in the literature on psychotherapy. It revisits some patients and case ...
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Supervision of Psychotherapy
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 6 discusses this unique interaction of psychotherapy supervision between the teacher and student. Supervision is a process that can enhance the psychotherapy experience for both of ...
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Creating the Working Alliance
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 1 explores ways to achieve rapport and a working alliance with challenging and difficult patients. ...

The Initial Sessions: Setting the Course
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 2 is devoted to enlisting the patient's participation in their treatment. Involving patients as joint participants in their own therapy is vital no matter what the diagnosis and no ...
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Termination of Psychotherapy: Patient’s Goals, Therapist’s Goals
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 8 is about termination of psychotherapy. Patients and their therapists often have differing views about if and when termination should take place. This difference is usually due to ...
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Master Therapists’ Construction of the Therapy Relationship
Michael Sullivan, Thomas M. Skovholt, and Len Jennings
in Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling, 10th Anniversary Edition
Qualitative research methods were used to elicit master therapists' statements regarding their use and understanding of the therapy relationship. The master therapists were identified and ...
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What Makes Good Therapists Fail?
Jörg Merten and Rainer Krause
in Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Settings
Chapter 5 further discusses nonverbal behaviors in the therapeutic relationship, and focuses on unconscious emotional processes that occur in the context of the therapeutic relationship and ...
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Repairing Alliance Ruptures
Catherine F. Eubanks, J. Christopher Muran, and Jeremy D. Safran
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 1: Evidence-Based Therapist Contributions (3 edn)
A rupture is a deterioration in the therapeutic alliance, manifested by a disagreement between the patient and therapist on treatment goals, a lack of collaboration on therapeutic tasks, or ...
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Getting Therapy Off to a Good Start
Raymond A. Digiuseppe, Kristene A. Doyle, Windy Dryden, and Wouter Backx
in A Practitioner's Guide to Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (3 edn)
This chapter reviews the clinical practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive-Behavior therapy (CBT) and discusses how some trans-theoretical aspects of psychotherapy ...
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Sessions, Practices, and the Therapeutic Process
Tayyab Rashid and Martin Seligman
in Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual
This chapter introduces the generic positive psychotherapy (PPT) session structure and provides an overall orientation to PPT. The nuts and bolts of PPT, in terms of its 14 sessions, ...
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The therapy session
Stirling Moorey and Steven Greer
in Oxford Guide to CBT for People with Cancer (2 ed.)
Chapter 6 discusses the CBT therapy session, including the therapeutic relationship, the structure of APT and APT sessions. Although the therapist-patient relationship and the structure of ...
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Positive Transferences in Psychotherapy
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 3 discusses positive transferences in psychotherapy. Transference is a repetition of past relationships in the patient's early history displaced onto current caretakers. ...
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Strategies of treatment
Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based treatment
This chapter describes four core strategies of treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). They include enhancing mentalization, bridging the gap between affects and their ...
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Setting the Stage for Treatment: Triage and Assessment
Esther Deblinger, Anthony P. Mannarino, Judith A. Cohen, Melissa K. Runyon, and Anne H. Heflin
in Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer for Treating Children, Adolescents, and Their Nonoffending Parents (2 ed.)
This chapter reviews factors important to consider prior to initiating TF-CBT with youth and their parents. This includes the identification, screening, and assessment of appropriate ...
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