Becoming a therapist : what do I say, and why?

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Becoming a therapist : what do I say, and why?

Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner

The Guilford Press, c2003

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index

Contents of Works

  • First contact
  • The first moments
  • Initiating an alliance and assessing safety
  • Enhancing the therapeutic alliance and eliciting history
  • Collecting a psychosocial history and screening for common psychological disorders
  • Formulating a treatment plan
  • The frame
  • Setting the fee and billing
  • Telephone calls: from dependencies to emergencies
  • No-shows, late arrivals, and late departures
  • Confidentiality and its limits
  • Substance abuse
  • Integrating psychopharmacology with psychotherapy
  • Management of impasses
  • Empathic lapses
  • Transference and countertransference
  • Termination

Details

  • NCID
    BA63758339
  • ISBN
    • 1572308044
  • LCCN
    2002007092
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 332 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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