Therapeutic Relationship Flashcards
Who talks about therapeutic relationship?
Rogers (1951)
What are the three principles of Rogerian therapeutic relationship?
Empathy
Unconditional Positive Regard
Congruence
Who talks about Rogerian principles being mutual and needing to go both ways?
Murphy and Cramer (2005)
Who talks about the therapeutic alliance?
Bordin (1979)
What are the elements of Bordin’s therapeutic alliance (1979)?
Tasks
Goals
Emotional bond
Who studied the difference between the experience of therapy for the client from the therapist?
Nissen-Lie et al. (2014)
What did Nissen-Lie et al. (2014) determine about the therapeutic relationship?
If the therapist perceives the client negatively, the client knows
The client is not affected by the therapist’s experience of flow
What is transference?
When the client is responding to the therapist as though they are someone else
What is counter-transference?
The therapist’s response to the client’s transference.
What is projection?
The negative thoughts/feelings that a client cannot hold being projected into the therapist.
“You don’t like me”
Actually, I don’t like you or I don’t like me but I cannot hold that.
Who did a study on self-disclosure?
Hanson (2007)
What did Hanson (2007) find about self-disclosure?
Self-disclosure can be helpful if done appropriately.
Non-disclosure can be just as damaging.
When can self-disclosure be helpful?
To create alliance and attachment
To create a sense of equality
To transition from before and after therapy
For what can non-disclosure be helpful?
Allowing the client to imagine the therapist
For what is non-disclosure most damaging?
The therapeutic relationship
