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| therapeutic communication wachtel: Therapeutic Communication Paul L. Wachtel, 2011-04-11 A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some communications in therapy are particularly effective, while others that address essentially the same content may actually be countertherapeutic. He offers clear and specific guidelines for how to ask questions and make comments in ways that facilitate collaborative exploration and promote change. Illustrated with vivid case examples, the book is grounded in an integrative theory that draws from features of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential approaches. New to This Edition * Reflects nearly 20 years of advances in the field and refinements of the author's approach. *Broader audience: in addition to psychodynamic therapists, cognitive-behavioral therapists and others will find specific, user-friendly recommendations. *Chapter on key developments and convergences across different psychotherapeutic approaches. *Chapter on the therapeutic implications of attachment theory and research. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy Paul L. Wachtel, 2010-10-19 This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions and practices that have traditionally characterized psychoanalysis. At the same time, it preserves, and even extends, the profound understanding of human experience and psychological conflict that has always been the strength of the psychoanalytic approach. Through probing theoretical analysis and illuminating examples, the book offers new and powerful ways to revitalize clinical practice. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Therapeutic Communication Paul L. Wachtel, 1993-03-19 Dr. Wachtel explores the largely unmapped territory of what the therapist says in the therapeutic setting, demonstrating a use of language that shows understanding, avoids inducing resistance, and yet does not sidestep the confrontation of painful realities. Extensive annotated transcripts of therap |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self Paul L. Wachtel, 2014-04-03 Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self articulates in new ways the essential features and most recent extensions of Paul Wachtel's powerfully integrative theory of cyclical psychodynamics. Wachtel is widely regarded as the leading advocate for integrative thinking in personality theory and the theory and practice of psychotherapy. He is a contributor to cutting edge thought in the realm of relational psychoanalysis and to highlighting the ways in which the relational point of view provides especially fertile ground for integrating psychoanalytic insights with the ideas and methods of other theoretical and therapeutic orientations. In this book, Wachtel extends his integration of psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential viewpoints to examine closely the nature of the inner world of subjectivity, its relation to the transactional world of daily life experiences, and the impact on both the larger social and cultural forces that both shape and are shaped by individual experience. Here, he discusses in a uniquely comprehensive fashiong the subtleties of the clinical interaction, the findings of systematic research, and the role of social, economic, and historical forces in our lives. The chapters in this book help to transcend the tunnel vision that can lead therapists of different orientations to ignore the important discoveries and innovations from competing approaches. Explicating the pervasive role of vicious circles and self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives, Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self shows how deeply intertwined the subjective, the intersubjective, and the cultural realms are, and points to new pathways to therapeutic and social change. Both a theoretical tour de force and an immensely practical guide to clinical practice, this book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of human behavior of all backgrounds and theoretical orientations. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Improving Therapeutic Communication D. Corydon Hammond, Dean H. Hepworth, Veon G. Smith, 1977-03-31 Throughout the book, the authors focus on the basic skills that facilitate communications in therapy (empathy, respect, authenticity, relating in the here-and-now, and confrontation) and explore specific methods of using them. These skills--which research shows are crucial to effective therapy--enable therapists and counselors to * Empathize in a caring way with the feelings of clients * Become receptive to clients in a warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental way * Constructively share feelings with clients in a natural, open manner * Therapeutically utilize moment-to-moment, here-and-now interaction * Make clients aware of their inconsistencies and discrepancies without arousing antagonism or defensiveness |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Talking about Health Roxanne Parrott, 2009-05-11 Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all. Organized around six key questions about health and communication: How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It? Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system Translates what we know about communication and health into useful guidelines for everyday practice Includes discussions of politics and healthcare, genetic testing, and alternative care The author's blog http://whyhealthcommunication.com/whc_blog/ focuses on why communicating about health can make a difference in our health and our quality of life |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Communication Skills for Foreign and Mobile Medical Professionals Kris van de Poel, Eddy Vanagt, Ulrike Schrimpf, Jessica Gasiorek, 2013-04-23 Around the world, the number of internationally mobile medical professionals is steadily increasing, posing potential difficulties for the good communication with patients and colleagues that is vital to satisfactory outcomes and personal professional success. Communication Skills for Foreign and Mobile Medical Professionals is an evidence-based communication resource book designed for all medical professionals who work in foreign countries, cultures, and languages. It offers a wealth of insights into doctor-patient communication, structured around the different phases of the consultation. The proposed strategies and tips will raise the reader’s awareness of important recurring issues in face-to-face interactions and improve his or her ability to deal with them effectively. Common misunderstandings between doctors and patients with a different cultural/linguistic background are discussed in depth. Throughout, the emphasis is on patient-oriented medicine. The modular structure of the book will ensure quick and easy retrieval of information. Communication Skills for Foreign and Mobile Medical Professionals will be of benefit to a wide range of medical professionals, from senior nursing staff through to heads of department, in multilingual or intercultural contexts. It will also be of value to human resource managers, language trainers, and cultural mediators. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Inside the Session Paul L. Wachtel, 2011 Unlike many presentations of clinical material, Inside the Session does not offer carefully selected examples of therapeutic dialogue that are conveniently chosen to conform to the therapist's views. Rather, it presents full transcripts of three entire sessions, enabling readers to see not just what went right, but where the therapist may have missed a crucial detail or may have intervened at the wrong moment. Inside the Session provides a rare opportunity to look over the shoulder--and into the mind of a renowned psychotherapist at work. The therapist in this candid and revealing annotation is prolific author Paul Wachtel, who intersperses the sessions' transcripts with insightful at-the-moment commentary not only on his clients' presenting problems, but also on his thoughts about how to proceed with exploring the clients' lines of thought, encouraging crucial insight, and effectively using restatements and simple words (and sounds) to facilitate dialogue. An additional key feature of the book is a comprehensive integrative framework that guides both the clinical work presented and the theoretical discussion that further illuminates it. Wachtel's well-known integrative theory draws on psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential perspectives, highlighting convergences that are obscured by different terminologies and clarifying where the differences are real and important--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Being of Two Minds Arnold I. Goldberg, 2013-06-17 From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of two minds. This division or vertical split appears in a person at odds with himself, a person who puzzles over, and even heartily dislikes, that parallel person who behaves in so repugnant a manner. In Being of Two Minds, Arnold Goldberg provides trenchant insight into such divided minds - their origins, their appearances, and their treatment. Goldberg's inquiry into divided minds leads to a return to the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal, which forms the basis of the vertical split. Goldberg explores the developmental circumstances that tend to a reliance on disavowal, provides numerous examples of the emergence of disavowal in the treatment situation, and considers the therapeutic approaches through which disavowal may be addressed. He is especially perceptive in discussing the manner in which the therapist's own tendency to disavow may collusively interact with that of the patient. Goldberg considers the full range of splits to which disavowal gives rise, from circumscribed instances of dissociation to the much-debated multiple personality disorders. He gives special attention to the role of the vertical split in patients with behavior disorders; here his thoughtful insights point to a treatment approach that significantly differs both from the simple ascription of a 'self disorder' and from the usual pedagogical emphasis on issues of self-control and/or punishment. As Goldberg shows, the repugnance felt by many therapists for offensive behaviors emanating from the patient's parallel self are frequently shared by the patient, who commonly despises misbehavior that he is unable to understand. Being of Two Minds begins to formulate just such understanding, to the great benefit of patient and therapist alike. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Doing Psychotherapy Michael Franz Basch, Michael Basch, 2008-08-01 Here is a practical guide to doing psychotherapy which, unlike most other manuals that present an idealized view of the therapist-patient relationship, shows what the therapeutic encounter is really like. Using detailed excerpts from clinical protocols, and without omitting the inevitable mistakes that a therapist will make, Dr. Basch draws the reader into the therapeutic dialogue as a way of experiencing what actually happens in the course of treatment with cases of varying complexity.The author focuses on the treatment of the kind of patients who, though likely to make up the majority of a therapist's practice, are generally ignored in training guides--those who are not acutely disturbed, whose pathology is minimal, but whose personal relationships are usually troubled, unsatisfying, and frequently destructive. Dr. Basch's approach, developed over twenty years of practicing and teaching psychotherapy, is dynamic and analytic in that he considers the management of the transference relationship as basic to the treatment process. however, he avoids the rigidities often associated with the classical psychoanalytic position and does not hesitate to incorporate into his teaching methods techniques associated with other schools of therapy. Throughout, he stresses building on the patient's strengths rather than searching for pathology.This wise and useful book not only will prove invaluable to all beginning psychotherapists--whether their background is one of psychiatry, psychology, or social work--but will also serve as an ideal refresher for those more experienced in clinical work. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World Paul L. Wachtel, 1997-01 In this update of Dr. Wachtel's seminal work, Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy, the author has developed a new integrative theory, cyclical psychodynamics, that has reworked traditional psychoanalytic concepts and proved capable of addressing observations and clinical experiences on which both psychoanalytic and behavioral theories are based. Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World carefully examines the implications of new developments in both psychoanalytic and behavioral approaches and significantly extends the cyclical psychodynamic model clinically and theoretically. The book addresses the increasingly powerful influence of cognitive perspectives in the thinking of behavior therapists and the emergence of a distinctive and integrative relational point of view in psychoanalysis. Both developments have been incorporated into the evolving cyclical psychodynamic model, as has increasing attention to the systemic point of view that guides the work of family therapists. In addition, this book introduces the reader to an innovative approach to the therapist's use of language. Dr. Wachtel considers in detail what the therapist says and how his or her choice of words can enhance or impede the therapeutic process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Race in the Mind of America Paul L. Wachtel, 2012-10-12 Internationally recognized psychologist Paul L. Wachtel sheds new light on the psychological foundations of our nation's racial impasse and applies his pathbreaking vicious circle approach to help resolve it. This timely and fascinating analysis shows how the ways we attempt to cope with racial tensions and inequalities often lead to the perpetuation of our difficulties rather than their resolution. Understanding the ironies that characterize contemporary race relations is the first step toward extricating our nation from the vicious circle. Both controversial and healing, Race inthe Mind of America challenges the orthodoxies that shape black and white opinion and liberal and conservative policies while sensitively exploring the way the world looks to both sides and why it looks that way. Wachtel probes the daily experiences of blacks and whites, shedding new light on how individual experiences and larger social, historical and economic forces continually re-create each other. In illustrating how blacks and whites get caught in vicious circles that sustain the very behaviors and attitudes they wish would change, Wachtel also points toward the concrete solutions to our seemingly enduring dilemmas and shows how to move beyond the adversarial rhetoric that divides us. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Communication in Organizations Goodyear Roger, Rekha Agarwala-Rogers, 1976-03-01 Effective advice on communication at every level in an organization, by the author of the book Communications Strategies for Family Planning, Professor of Communication at the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University. Communication in Organizations is Goodyear Roger and Rekha Agarwala-Rogers' business communications guide for organizational success perfect for any level. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Carol Tamparo, Wilburta Lindh, 2007-07-24 Health professionals today need a succinct yet brief text to guide them through the maze of communication with patients and consumers of health care. All the usual dynamics are heightened when persons participating in communication are sick, frustrated, hurting, and worried. the central idea of this comprehensive text is that good therapeutic communication with patients will decrease the risk both to patient and provider of misunderstandings, and will increase patient compliance, and save time for everyone in the long run. A wide variety of client profiles and appropriate therapeutic responses |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse Kathleen Wheeler, 2008-01-01 Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse provides the nurse psychotherapist with a useful how-to primer that contains practical techniques and interventions without a lot of theoretical jargon. Topics include the basics of psychotherapy, from how to respond to a patient's initial call to termination of care. Selected approaches, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic psychotherapy are highlighted with discussion of evidence-base research. Specific techniques for working with commonly seen patient populations that require special consideration: those who have experienced trauma, children, and older adults are included. In addition, how to integrate psychopharmacology and psychotherapy is discussed in detail. A straightforward approach to psychotherapy using a holistic nursing framework. Latest findings on the neurophysiology of psychotherapy including research on attachment, therapeutic relationships, and trauma. Evidence-based research for all approaches and populations discussed. Provides treatment hierarchy for decision making in selecting strategies for treatment from the initial contact and assessment to termination.Step-by-step guide to building the nurse-patient relationship in order to achieve quality outcomes. Includes detailed instructions on therapeutic communication techniques.Detailed instructions teach you how to use the latest therapeutic communication techniques.Includes all patient populations from children to the older adult with special emphasis on working with traumatized patients.Comprehensive appendices provide quick access to helpful forms and diagnostic tools specific to psychotherapy nursing practice. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: A Guide to Collaborative Communication for Service-Learning and Community Engagement Partners Rebecca Dumlao, 2023-07-03 This book focuses on partnerships at the most basic level of interaction – between two people as they work toward common goals. Interpersonal dynamics described in this book are intended to guide formal and institutional relationships between members of a community or community organization on the one hand and representatives from campus on the other. Collaborative communication principles and practices shared can form a foundation for individuals to build flexible, lasting relationships that will weather most challenges and sustain the larger partnerships of their respective organizations.This book offers a conceptual framework of collaborative communication to build and sustain partnerships, recognizing that relationships change over time as the people involved and their circumstances evolve. Collaborative communication uses a repertoire of knowledge and skills that allow partners to make choices that fit their situation or context and to work through differences and challenges as they occur, to include managing conflict and navigating cultural differences. It further takes into account the different means of communication, whether face-to-face, using e-mail, text messaging, or social media. Readers will appreciate the numerous real world examples that illustrate and bring its key concepts to life.This book is addressed to partners at all levels focused on community engagement and service-learning. It is intended for preparing college students to work more effectively in the community, as well as for workshops for community and campus members who work with service-learning students. It can equally be used in leadership workshops in academic and community settings. Scholars, students, or community members involved in community engaged research will also find useable ideas for their work. The appendices offer an annotated bibliography of useful resources and provide readers with a repertoire of activities for building a collaborative communication repertoire. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: The Unconscious Joel Weinberger, Valentina Stoycheva, 2019-11-22 Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review heuristics, implicit memory, implicit learning, attribution theory, implicit motivation, automaticity, affective versus cognitive salience, embodied cognition, and clinical theories of unconscious functioning. They integrate this work with cognitive neuroscience views of the mind to create an empirically supported model of the unconscious. Arguing that widely used psychotherapies--including both psychodynamic and cognitive approaches--have not kept pace with current science, the book identifies promising directions for clinical practice. Winner--American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Theory) |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy Gill Westland, 2015-08-24 Implicit communications analyzed alongside verbal communication in therapy. Body language, facial expression, and tone of voice are key components in therapeutic interactions, but for far too long psychotherapists have dismissed them in favor of purely verbal information. In Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy, Gill Westland examines the interrelation of the verbal and the non-verbal in the context of clients and therapists working together. The physiology of communication is also discussed: from overwhelming emotions that make it difficult to speak to breath awareness that makes it easier. Therapists will be able to cultivate non-verbal communication through mindfulness practices and “right brain to right brain communication.” It is not just the client’s actions and emotions that are significant; it is important that therapists relate in a way that makes it clear to their clients that they are receptive and inviting, and Westland expertly depicts the bodily dimensions of this encounter between client and therapist. The book brings together insights from a range of psychotherapeutic traditions, including psychoanalysis, arts psychotherapies, humanistic psychotherapy, and, in particular, body psychotherapy, for clinicians who want to expand their communication abilities. Drawing on 30 years of clinical experience, and providing illustrative clinical vignettes, Westland has written a guide both for those who might not have any experience in the theory of non-verbal communications and for lifelong psychotherapy practitioners. She lays as groundwork recent research into the neurobiology of interaction and the foundations of non-verbal communication in babyhood, continuing throughout from a bodymind perspective that pays due attention to the physicality of the body. Westland urges therapists to learn how to leave their comfort zone and try new ways of helping their clients. Writing in a richly evocative, lucid language, Westland seeks to bring about change in both psychotherapist and client as they navigate both the verbal and non-verbal aspects of embodied relating. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Treating Troubled Children and Their Families Ellen F. Wachtel, 2004-06-02 Integrating systemic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives, this acclaimed book presents an innovative framework for therapeutic work. Ellen Wachtel shows how parents and children all too often get entangled in patterns that cause grief to both generations, and demonstrates how to help bring about change with a combination of family-focused and child-focused interventions. Vivid case examples illustrate creative ways to engage young children in family sessions and conduct complementary sessions with children and parents alone, using a variety of strengths-based, developmentally informed strategies. The paperback edition features a new preface in which the author reflects on the continuing evolution of her approach. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: The Psychotherapeutic Stance Carsten René Jørgensen, 2019-05-24 This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research. In the first part, the book critically examines the traditional focus on technical factors in psychotherapy based on available empirical research on the subject. It asks questions about whether specific techniques cure specific diagnoses or therapists and therapeutic relationships that cure persons. Part II of the book argues that the currently dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy must be challenged by a better understanding of psychopathology and psychotherapy that contextualizes the relationship between therapist and the patient. Overall, this book provides a new approach to some of the most important questions in psychotherapy and discusses what it means to think and work psychotherapeutically. The book is highly relevant for professionals in clinical/psychotherapy training and for advanced courses in psychotherapy, including courses on mentalization-based therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and eclectic psychotherapy. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Clinical Psychology for Trainees Andrew C. Page, Werner G. K. Stritzke, 2014-12-04 Fully updated for DSM-5, this book provides clinical psychology trainees with a practical template for incorporating the scientist-practitioner model into clinical practice. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: How to Communicate with Confidence, Clarity and Credibility Laura Katen, 2015-05-01 |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Communication Matters Kory Floyd, 2011 Communication Matters helps students move beyond an intuitive appreciation of communication to explore core principles of the discipline. By helping students take personal responsibility for their communication behaviors, by encouraging critical reflection, and by actively applying the key concepts to diverse contemporary challenges, the program fosters an understanding of the many important ways communication matters in daily life. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Situations John F. Rauthmann, Ryne Sherman, David C. Funder, 2020-07-01 Situations matter. They let people express their personalities and values; provoke motivations, emotions, and behaviors; and are the contexts in which people reason and act. The psychological assessment of situations is a new and rapidly developing area of research, particularly within the fields of personality and social psychology. This volume compiles state-of-the-art knowledge on psychological situations in chapters written by experts in their respective research areas. Bringing together historical reviews, theoretical pieces, methodological descriptions, and empirical applications, this volume is the definitive, go-to source for a psychology of situations. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: The Origins of Attachment Beatrice Beebe, Frank M. Lachmann, 2013-12-04 The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are described. These aspects of communication are out of conscious awareness. They provide clinicians with new ways of thinking about infancy, and about nonverbal communication in adult treatment. Utilizing an extraordinarily detailed microanalysis of videotaped mother-infant interactions at 4 months, Beatrice Beebe, Frank Lachmann, and their research collaborators provide a more fine-grained and precise description of the process of attachment transmission. Second-by-second microanalysis operates like a social microscope and reveals more than can be grasped with the naked eye. The book explores how, alongside linguistic content, the bodily aspect of communication is an essential component of the capacity to communicate and understand emotion. The moment-to-moment self- and interactive processes of relatedness documented in infant research form the bedrock of adult face-to-face communication and provide the background fabric for the verbal narrative in the foreground. The Origins of Attachment is illustrated throughout with several case vignettes of adult treatment. Discussions by Carolyn Clement, Malcolm Slavin and E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra Harrison and Stephen Seligman show how the research can be used by practicing clinicians. This book details aspects of bodily communication between mothers and infants that will provide useful analogies for therapists of adults. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and graduate students. Collaborators Joseph Jaffe, Sara Markese, Karen A. Buck, Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen, Lorraine Bahrick, Howard Andrews, Stanley Feldstein Discussants Carolyn Clement, Malcolm Slavin, E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra Harrison, Stephen Seligman |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Counseling Theory Richard D. Parsons, Naijian Zhang, 2014-01-16 Organized around the latest CACREP standards, Counseling Theory: Guiding Reflective Practice, by Richard D. Parsons and Naijian Zhang, presents theory as an essential component to both counselor identity formation and professional practice. Drawing on the contributions of current practitioners, the text uses both classical and cutting-edge theoretical models of change as lenses for processing client information and developing case conceptualizations and intervention plans. Each chapter provides a snapshot of a particular theory/approach and the major thinkers associated with each theory as well as case illustrations and guided practice exercises to help readers internalize the content presented and apply it to their own development as counselors. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy Sandra Walker Russ, 2003-10-03 Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only begun. Extensive studies by developmental researchers have, however, strongly supported the importance of play for children. Much knowledge is being accumulated about the ways in which play is involved in the development of cognitive, affective, and personality processes that are crucial for adaptive functioning. However, there has been a yawning gap between research findings and useful suggestions for practitioners. Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy represents the first effort to bridge the gap and place play therapy on a firmer empirical foundation. Sandra Russ applies sophisticated contemporary understanding of the role of play in child development to the work of mental health professionals who are trying to design intervention and prevention programs that can be empirically evaluated. Never losing sight of the complex problems that face child therapists, she integrates clinical and developmental research and theory into a comprehensive, up-to-date review of current approaches to conceptualizing play and to doing both therapeutic play work with children and the assessment that necessarily precedes and accompanies it. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Relational Group Psychotherapy Richard Billow, 2003-01-31 This volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: EMDR and the Relational Imperative Mark Dworkin, 2013-08-21 In this groundbreaking work, Mark Dworkin, an EMDR teacher, facilitator, and long-time practitioner, explores the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship and the vital role it plays in using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized clients. Showing how relational issues play a key role in each phase of EMDR treatment, the author provides tools for the therapist to more efficiently apply this method in the treatment of trauma victims and form a stronger and healthier relationship with the patient. A standard reference for all practitioners working to heal the wounds of trauma, this book will be an essential resource for the effective application of EMDR. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy Ellen F. Wachtel, Paul L. Wachtel, 1990-06-01 Bridging individual and family approaches, the Wachtels demonstrate in rich clinical detail just how the incorporation of new ideas and methods derived from family therapy can enrich the work of most therapists. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: How to Communicate with Confidence Dr. Mike Bechtle, 2013-07-15 Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. How to Communicate with Confidence is a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works in any situation--and works for any personality type. Highlighting the art of give and take and stressing the importance of listening, this book gives confidence to those who hesitate to strike up a conversation. Author Mike Bechtle shows readers that they don't have to have a stockpile of great stories to tell in order to make good conversation. Instead, he encourages an explorer mind-set and gives readers the tools they need to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Uncovering the Resilient Core Patricia Gianotti, Jack Danielian, 2017-02-03 Uncovering the Resilient Core provides a comprehensive and inclusive methodology that guides the therapist into the nuances and complexities of the therapeutic relationship throughout the entire course of treatment. With its psychodynamic/relational orientation, this Workbook is unique in that it begins with character pathology in its widest spectrum and moves in depth to understanding and treating corrosive shame, dissociation, trauma and narcissism, including narcissism’s many hidden cultural and dynamic manifestations. The applied nature of this text draws from a wide variety of case examples as well as progressive therapeutic techniques designed to help deepen therapeutic listening skills. Training concepts are organically linked to videotaped treatment examples, with ample discussion questions and case analyses that can be used in your own supervision groups. These videos can be found on www.routledge.com/9781138183285 and serve as companion illustrations closely following the learning points in the text itself. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, 1998-01-01 A combination of social and economic factors have led to the current surge of interest in brief psychotherapy. But how do the time limitations affect the central relationship between therapist and client? How do therapist and client determine the focus of their work together? How does the therapist deal with ruptures in the working alliance and the pressure of termination issues? |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Freud and Man's Soul Bruno Bettelheim, 2001 Has Freud been seriously misunderstood? Do the standard translations distort his thought and conceal his profound humanism?Indeed, have psychoanalysts - Freud's 'ministers of souls' - become mere medical technicians? Bruno Bettelheim's brilliantly argued polemic cuts through the myths in order to reveal the real Freud - a greater, more passionate but also a far more disturbing figure than he is usually portrayed.'There have long been rumblings about the inadequacy of English translations of Freud Bruno Bettelheim's new book is the most powerful blast yet, and its reverberations will not soon die away. Much of his attack is clearly justified.' Times Educational Supplement |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Psychic Structure and Psychic Change Mardi Jon Horowitz, Otto F. Kernberg, Edward M. Weinshel, 1993 |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy David Kealy, John S. Ogrodniczuk, 2019-06 Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Evolving Clinical Practice covers the latest applications of psychodynamic therapy for a range of clinical issues, including depression, anxiety, psychosis, borderline personality and trauma. It discusses psychodynamic practice as an evidence-based therapy, providing reviews of outcome and process research. Covering a wide array of treatments tailored for specific disorders and populations, this book is designed to appeal to clinicians and researchers who are looking to broaden their knowledge of the latest treatment strategies, novel applications, and current developments in psychodynamic practice. Outlines innovative delivery strategies and techniques Features therapies for children, refugees, the LGBT community, and more Covers the psychodynamic treatment of eating, psychosomatic and anxiety disorders Includes psychotherapy strategies for substance misuse and personality disorders |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Empathy Reconsidered Arthur C. Bohart, Leslie S. Greenberg, 1997-01-01 [This book is intended] for clinicians, theoreticians, and researchers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Therapist Performance Under Pressure J. Christopher Muran, Catherine F. Eubanks, 2020 Introduction : Pressure in the therapeutic relationship -- The Science of performance under pressure -- The Science of the therapist under pressure -- From emotion to rupture -- From emotion to repair -- The Way to Therapist Training -- The Way to therapist Self-care -- Conclusion : In the pressure cooker. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Natasha C. N. Prenn, Diana Fosha, 2016-12 Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is based on the concept of transformation. AEDP therapists utilize insights from attachment theory and research demonstrating the brain's power to reorganize itself and develop new pathways through neuroplasticity. AEDP clinicians help clients unearth, explore, and process core feelings in order to transform anxiety and defensiveness into long-lasting, positive change. In this comprehensive guide, AEDP leaders Natasha Prenn and Diana Fosha offer a model of clinical supervision that is based on the AEDP approach. AEDP supervisors seek to create dynamic change within the supervisee, so that trainees understand on a visceral level the process they aim to facilitate in therapy with clients. Through close observation of videotaped sessions, AEDP supervisors model a strong focus on here-and-now interactions characterized by affective resonance, and empathy. The goal is to offer trainees an embodied experience to mirror their growing intellectual understanding of how change occurs in AEDP. The book also includes vignettes from Dr. Fosha's supervisory sessions with a real trainee, as shown in the DVD Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Supervision, also available from APA Books. |
| therapeutic communication wachtel: Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy Jay Lebow, Anthony Chambers, Douglas C. Breunlin, 2019-10-08 This authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties. A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia: Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families Integrative treatment for infidelity Live supervision in couple and family therapy Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms Split alliance in couple and family therapy Transgender couples and families The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice. |
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THERAPEUTIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
THERAPEUTIC definition: 1. relating to the curing of a disease or medical condition: 2. causing someone to feel happier…. Learn more.
THERAPEUTIC Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Therapeutic definition: of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.. See examples of THERAPEUTIC used in a sentence.
THERAPEUTIC definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If something is therapeutic, it helps you to relax or to feel better about things, especially about a situation that made you unhappy.
What does therapeutic mean? | Healing Insights
The term therapeutic in medical contexts refers to any treatment or intervention aimed at healing or alleviating symptoms of diseases. This includes medications, surgeries, and physical …
therapeutic adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation ...
[usually before noun] helping to treat an illness. helping you to relax. Painting can be very therapeutic. I find listening to music very therapeutic. Definition of therapeutic adjective in …
What is: Therapeutic - Understanding Therapeutic Practices
The term “therapeutic” refers to anything that is related to the treatment of diseases or disorders. It encompasses a wide range of practices, medications, and interventions aimed at improving …
Therapeutic Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
THERAPEUTIC meaning: 1 : producing good effects on your body or mind; 2 : of or relating to the treatment of illness
Locations - MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic ...
MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic & Therapeutic Centers has three centers located in Marrero, Metairie and New Orleans, Louisiana.
THERAPEUTIC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of THERAPEUTIC is of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods : curative, medicinal. How to use therapeutic in a sentence.
Therapeutic - definition of therapeutic by The Free Dictionary
1. of or pertaining to the treating or curing of disease or disorders; curative; rehabilitative. 2. serving to maintain or restore health: therapeutic abortion. 3. having a beneficial effect on one's …
THERAPEUTIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
THERAPEUTIC definition: 1. relating to the curing of a disease or medical condition: 2. causing someone to feel happier…. Learn more.
THERAPEUTIC Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Therapeutic definition: of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.. See examples of THERAPEUTIC used in a sentence.
THERAPEUTIC definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If something is therapeutic, it helps you to relax or to feel better about things, especially about a situation that made you unhappy.
What does therapeutic mean? | Healing Insights
The term therapeutic in medical contexts refers to any treatment or intervention aimed at healing or alleviating symptoms of diseases. This includes medications, surgeries, and physical …
therapeutic adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation ...
[usually before noun] helping to treat an illness. helping you to relax. Painting can be very therapeutic. I find listening to music very therapeutic. Definition of therapeutic adjective in …
What is: Therapeutic - Understanding Therapeutic Practices
The term “therapeutic” refers to anything that is related to the treatment of diseases or disorders. It encompasses a wide range of practices, medications, and interventions aimed at improving …
Therapeutic Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
THERAPEUTIC meaning: 1 : producing good effects on your body or mind; 2 : of or relating to the treatment of illness
Locations - MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic ...
MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic & Therapeutic Centers has three centers located in Marrero, Metairie and New Orleans, Louisiana.
