Presentations Flashcards
Alliance in adult psychotherapy
Confident collaborative connection.
Transference and working alliance
Alliance in child and adolescent psychotherapy
Collaborative, don’t be over formal
Be friendly, not another adult telling them what to do
Alliance in couple and family psychotherapy
Alliance between members
Alliance between members and psychologist
Common objectives
Repairing alliance rupture
Look for signs, address it directly, don’t blame patient, accept your role in the rupture
Goal consensus and collaboration
Sharing therapy goal and working towards it together
eg. use “we”
Cohesion in group therapy
Leader promotes participation, member-member…
A lot of feedback
<9 members
>20 session
Empathy and its role in psychotherapy
Understand impact, not only concept and show that you do.
Change perspective
Individualized response
Positive regard and affirmation
Gentle, warm, flexible with time and day of session, make them feel comfortable
The real relationship
Realism and Genuineness
Consistency leads to trust
Self-disclosure and immediacy
Sharing personal things (only resolved ones)
Sharing in the moment thoughts about the therapy
Cultivating positive outcome expectations
Realistic treatment and outcome expectations
Should be addressed early on
Promoting treatment credibility
Sound logical with treatment rationale
Make it sound possible
Delivering and collecting client feedback
Apply a brief questionnaire after each session, assessing in a specific point in time
Enhance clinicians decision-making
Managing countertransference
Projecting own things onto patient
Avoid doing it, learn to manage it
Seen in reactions of therapist
Self-care
Cultural adaptations and multicultural competence
Adapt language
Know on culture and how it may affect perspective
