Previous edition published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-395) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction and overview: The interpersonal approach -- Responding to clients. Establishing a working alliance ; Honoring the client's resistance ; An internal focus for change ; Helping clients with their feelings -- Clarifying the client's problem and developing a treatment focus. Familial and developmental factors ; Inflexible interpersonal coping strategies ; Relational themes and reparative experiences -- Resolution and change. Working with the process dimension ; Working- through and termination.
Summary:
Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model, 7th Edition, focuses on the therapist-client relationship. Compelling to read and discuss, this resource brings together clinical concepts and research as well as relational elements from various approaches, explaining how to use the therapeutic relationship to effect change. The authors alleviate beginning therapists' concerns about making "mistakes," teach them how to work with countertransference issues, and empower them to be themselves. Featuring new case examples, updated references and research, and extended clinical vignettes, this edition brings the reader "in the room" with the therapist.--Publisher website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.