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On Becoming a Better Therapist

For many therapists, making sense of the latest developments in psychotherapy can feel overwhelming. Every day it seems there are dozens of therapeutic approaches, fully-manualized treatments hot off the press, and twenty more clinical tests meant to measure the precise extent of evolving psychopathologies. In therapy with individual clients, it can often be difficult to know objectively if you're achieving the desired results — or worse, you might know you're not reaching a particular client but have no idea why, and no idea what to do about it. An accumulation of unfruitful encounters over time can weigh on you, despite your good success rate overall. You read as much as you can, you try new approaches, but despite all the hard work you feel as though you're missing something. How can you properly assess your progress and that of your clients properly? How can you achieve better results, more often, with a wider variety of clients? In short — how can you become a better therapist?

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 211
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781433807572
  • Release date
  • 2010