Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model Author: Edward Teyber | Language: English | ISBN:
0495604208 | Format: EPUB
Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model Description
Therapy that effects change must authentically involve you, the therapist. Highly engaging and readable, INTERPERSONAL PROCESS IN THERAPY: AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL brings together cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and psychodynamic theories into one cohesive framework, all the while showing you practical ways to alleviate your concerns about making a "mistake". Newly revised and edited, this contemporary text features new case examples, updated references and research, clinical vignettes, and sample therapist-client dialogues, helping to bring you "in the room" with the therapist, and illustrating the interpersonal process in a clinically authentic and compelling way. This book enables you to be who you need to be in a therapeutic situation: yourself. Both scholarly and easy to use, this counseling text will be a resource you'll use again and again.
- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 6 edition (June 17, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0495604208
- ISBN-13: 978-0495604204
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I found this little gem sitting on a shelf with other books marked "Free" so I picked it up. What a great find! The first thing I noticed about the book was that it was written to assist counseling students entering their practicum/internship phase and seeing their very first clients. Talk about synchronicity! That is exactly where I was when I found it!
The second thing I noticed was that the book was rather dated (over 20 years old). After a quick search here on Amazon.com, I found the text has gone through many changes with the most recent edition being published in 2010. It is also considered a "textbook" which means it now costs over a hundred bucks. Funny how when a book goes from "book" to "textbook" the price quadruples.
The book starts off by acknowledging most students who enter the field of counseling/therapy already possess sensitivity, intuition, common sense, and a genuine concern for others. While these traits are both necessary and useful, left alone they do not prepare one to enter an affect-laden therapeutic relationship. To be effective, those qualities must be tied to a conceptual framework. The interpersonal process approach is a combination of three theories: interpersonal, object relations, and family systems. In short, the assumptions are that problems are interpersonal in nature, familial experience is a valuable source for learning about ourselves and others, and the relationship between counselor and client can be used to resolve those problems.
I am reminded at this point of numerous studies that show the most effective form of treatment is not the theory the counselor/therapist uses but the rapport built between the counselor/therapist and the client. Theories certainly play a part but the type of theory (i.e.
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