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Becoming a therapist : what do I say, and why? / Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner.

Author/creator Bender, Suzanne
Other author/creatorMessner, Edward.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : The Guilford Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxx, 332 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents First contact -- The first moments -- Initiating an alliance and assessing safety -- Enhancing the therapeutic alliance and eliciting history -- Collecting a psychosocial history and screening for common psychological disorders -- Formulating a treatment plan -- The frame -- Setting the fee and billing -- Telephone calls: from dependencies to emergencies -- No-shows, late arrivals, and late departures -- Confidentiality and its limits -- Substance abuse -- Integrating psychopharmacology with psychotherapy -- Management of impasses -- Empathic lapses -- Transference and countertransference -- Termination.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index.
LCCN 2002007092
ISBN1572308044 :

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