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Building the Therapeutic Alliance Guide

Posted on 22 October 2021

This comprehensive 55-page resource, developed for therapists, delves into what a therapeutic alliance is and why it’s so important, and provides practical strategies and guidance to help you strengthen the therapeutic relationship with your clients (including effectively dealing with relationship ruptures).

Topics covered by the guide include:

  • Why the therapeutic alliance is so important
  • What the research says about therapeutic alliance
  • The alliance through several lenses
  • Attachment styles (and their relevance to the client-therapist relationship)
  • Essential therapist characteristics
  • Essential qualities in the alliance
  • Transference and projection in therapy
  • The strategies that maintain or develop the therapeutic alliance
  • The special case of sessions via videoconferencing
  • Therapeutic alliance ruptures - and how to deal with them

Click here to download your free copy.

 

Thank you Mental Health Academy for sharing this resource.