Full Description
The client is the protagonist in the psychotherapy journey with the therapist supporting them on their journey. This book argues for the importance of recognizing clients amp rsquo expertise on their own lives and allowing them the space to generate their innate capacity for self‑healing.
The Other Side of Psychotherapy offers fresh insights into clients amp rsquo experiences and offers guidelines for how therapists can capitalize on clients amp rsquo knowledge, skills, and strengths to build the therapeutic alliance and ensure transformational change. Contributors present what is known about client factors, what can be inferred about clients from the literature, and what isn't known or is missing. They also emphasize that each client must be understood as an individual that does not always conform with broad empirical conceptualizations.
Authors discuss implications for practice, teaching and training, and identify fruitful areas for future research. Case examples offer vivid, practical illustrations centering psychotherapy around individual clients in real‑life clinical scenarios.
Contents
Contributors
An Introduction to The Other Side of Psychotherapy
Jairo N. Fuertes
Part I. Client Factors in Therapy Processes and Outcomes
Chapter . Client Expertise: The Active Client in Psychotheraph
Arthur C. Bohart and Karen Tallman
Chapter 2. Understanding and Enhancing Client Motivation
Jo amp atilde o Tiago Oliveira, Juan Mart amp iacute n G amp oacute mez-Penedo, and Martin grosse Holtforth
Chapter 3. Patient Readiness to Change: What We Know About Their Stages and Processes of Change
John C. Norcross, Danielle M. Cook, and Jairo N. Fuertes
Chapter 4. Therapist and Client Facilitative Interpersonal Skills in Psychotherapy
Timothy Anderson and Matthew R. Perlman
Chapter 5. Clients amp rsquo Experiences of Attachment in the Psychotherapy Relationship
Brent Mallinckrodt
Chapter . Clients amp rsquo Agentic and Self-Healing Activities in Psychotherapy
Amy Greaves
Part II. Client amp ndash Therapist Interactions
Chapter 7. The Client amp rsquo s Function in the Psychotherapy Relationship: What Clients Experience and Contribute
Charles J. Gelso and Kathryn V. Kline
Chapter 8. Client-Focused Assessment and Intervention: Tailoring the Work to the Client
James F. Boswell and Adela Scharff
Chapter 9. Rethinking Therapists amp rsquo Responsiveness to Center Clients amp rsquo Experiences of Psychotherapy
Heidi M. Levitt, Kathleen M. Collins, Javier L. Rizo, and Ally B. Hand
Chapter . Clients amp rsquo Influence on Psychotherapists and the Treatment They Provide
Rodney K. Goodyear and Hideko Sera
Chapter . Clients amp rsquo Own Perspectives on Psychotherapy Outcomes and Their Mechanisms
Michael J. Constantino, Averi N. Gaines, Alice E. Coyne
Chapter 2. Clients amp rsquo Experiences of Therapy Ending
Cheri Marmarosh
Part III. Integration and Discussion
Chapter 3. Closing Thoughts About The Other Side of Psychotherapy
Jairo N. Fuertes
Index
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