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This book teaches the skills therapists need to understand and empathize with clients, develop strong therapeutic alliances, make accurate contextualized assessments, and facilitate positive change.
List of contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Part I. Introduction to Empathy and the Mental Health Professional Chapter 1. What Is Empathy, and Why Does It Matter?
Part II. Building a Framework for Understanding People Chapter 2. Understanding Meaning Systems
Chapter 3. Understanding Culture, Identity, and Oppression
Part III. Developing Empathic Assessments Chapter 4. Building the Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 5. Communicating Empathy Verbally
Chapter 6. Assessing People in Context
Chapter 7. Thinking Critically to Ensure Accurate Assessments
Part IV. Facilitating Positive Change Chapter 8. Developing Goals and a Treatment Plan
Chapter 9. Providing Empathic Interventions
Chapter 10. Ending Treatment
Part V. Professional Issues Chapter 11. Ethics
Chapter 12. Writing Empathic Clinical Reports
Chapter 13. Self-Care
References
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Jeanne M. Slattery, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Clarion University. She is passionate about teaching and helping students learn to become empathic and respectful clinicians. She has also written
Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research into Clinical Practice and
Counseling Diverse Clients: Bringing Context into Therapy. She is a licensed psychologist with a small private practice and especially works with adults and children with a history of trauma, and mood and anxiety disorders. She lives in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Visit https://jeannemslattery.wordpress.com.
Crystal L. Park, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her research focuses on multiple aspects of coping with stressful events, including the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, yoga, and the making of meaning in the context of traumatic events and life-threatening illnesses, particularly with cancer survivors, congestive heart failure patients, and military veterans. At UConn, she maintains an active research lab and teaches health psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She lives in the lovely village of Mystic, Connecticut. Visit https://spiritualitymeaningandhealth.uconn.edu.
Summary
Empathy is fundamental to therapeutic change. This text teaches students the clinical skills they will need as therapists to communicate empathy and help clients change. This second edition features new case studies, research, and clinical applications, and a streamlined presentation that better mirrors the process of mental health treatment.
