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Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O’Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others.
Therapeutic Boundaries and Effective Therapy: Exploring the Relationships
Therapeutic Boundaries and Effective Therapy: Exploring the Relationships
Therapeutic Boundaries—An Overview
Boundaries in therapy are extremely important because they not only define the therapeutic fiduciary relationships and distinguish psychotherapy from social, familial, sexual, business, and many other types of relationships, but they also have a direct effect on the effectiveness of therapy. There are two types of boundaries. One type is the boundaries that are drawn around the therapeutic relationship and involve issues of fees, privacy and confidentiality, and place and time of therapy. Boundaries of another sort are drawn between the therapist and the client rather than around them. Such boundaries include therapist self-disclosure, giving and receiving gifts, regulating touch and physical proximity between therapists and clients, language, ...
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