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Becoming a Therapist

What Do I Say, and Why?
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This book provides students and novice clinicians with nuts-and bolts advice about the process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient. Filling a typical gap in clinical training, the book focuses on such real-world tasks as setting up appointments and discussing payment, conducting effective assessments while setting patients at ease, and dealing with mundane and serious clinical concerns, including suicidality. Featured are a wealth of sample therapist-patient dialogues that bring each situation to life. Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner - a junior clinician and a seasoned practitioner and supervisor - provide a unique, combined perspective on how therapy is conducted, what works and what doesn't work in treatment, and how to take care of oneself as a clinician. Each chapter opens with a concise summary and concludes with a list of key terms. The book also includes a helpful glossary and suggestions for further reading.
I. The Consultation 1. First Contact 2. The First Moments 3. Initiating an Alliance and Assessing Safety 4. Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Eliciting History 5. Collecting a Psychosocial History and Screening for Common Psychological Disorders 6. Formulating a Treatment Plan II. Frame and Variations 7. The Frame 8. Setting the Fee and Billing 9. Telephone Calls: From Dependencies to Emergencies 10. No-Shows, Late Arrivals, and Late Departures 11. Confidentiality and Its Limits III. Chemistry 12. Substance Abuse 13. Integrating Psychopharmacology with Psychotherapy IV. Therapeutic Dilemmas 14. Management of Impasses 15. Empathic Lapses 16. Transference and Countertransference 17. Termination
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