Full Description
This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time.
Expert contributors from a variety of theoretical orientations synthesize key research and identify common factors across these approaches along with their unique contributions to the field of psychology.
Chapters first explore important broad concepts and strategies, including therapists attuning to their clients' needs, examining the importance of the therapeutic relationship, the role clinicians play as attachment figures for their clients, and repairing ruptures in the working alliance.
Building from this foundation, chapters then examine specific types of therapy in detail, including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, emotion-focused therapy, control-mastery theory, narrative therapy, attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ individuals and their nonaccepting caregivers, and integrative therapies. Authors review strategies for responding to specific client markers, cultural diversity considerations, guidance for training and supervision, and directions for future research.
Clinical case examples enrich the material, demonstrating the dos and don'ts of responsiveness with diverse clients.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring Responsiveness and Attunement in Psychotherapy
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman
Part I. The Case for Responsiveness
Chapter . Responsiveness in Psychotherapy Research: Problems and Ways Forward
William B. Stiles
Chapter 2. Responsiveness, the Relationship, and the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
Robert L. Hatcher
Chapter 3. Attachment Theory as a Framework for Responsiveness in Psychotherapy
Hadas Wiseman and Sharon Egozi
Chapter 4. Responsiveness to Ruptures and Repairs in Psychotherapy
Catherine F. Eubanks, Joey Sergi, and J. Christopher Muran
Part II. Responsiveness in Different Therapeutic Approaches
Chapter 5. Responsiveness in Psychodynamic Relational Psychotherapy
Orya Tishby
Chapter . Responsiveness in Control-Mastery Theory
George Silberschatz
Chapter 7. Context-Responsive Psychotherapy Integration Applied to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael J. Constantino, Brien J. Goodwin, Heather J. Muir, Alice E. Coyne, and James F. Boswell
Chapter 8. Responsiveness in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Jeanne C. Watson
Chapter 9. Responsiveness and Therapeutic Collaboration in Narrative Therapy
Eug amp eacute nia Ribeiro, Miguel M. Gon amp ccedil alves, and Dulce Pinto
Chapter . Therapist Responsiveness in Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Adults and Their Nonaccepting Parents
Gary M. Diamond, Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir, and Ofir Nir-Gottlieb
Chapter . Therapist Responsiveness in Treatments for Personality Disorders
Ueli Kramer
Chapter 2. Enhancing Therapist Responsiveness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Jamie D. Bedics and Holly J. McKinley
Chapter 3. Responsiveness in Integrative Therapies
James F. Boswell, Brittany R. King, Carly M. Schwartzman, Rachel H. Wasserman, and Michael J. Constantino
Part III. Integration and Conclusions
Chapter 4. Meeting the Challenge of Responsiveness: Synthesizing Perspectives
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman
Index
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