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This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time.
List of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring Responsiveness and Attunement in Psychotherapy
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas WisemanPart I. The Case for Responsiveness Chapter 1. Responsiveness in Psychotherapy Research: Problems and Ways Forward
William B. Stiles Chapter 2. Responsiveness, the Relationship, and the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
Robert L. Hatcher Chapter 3. Attachment Theory as a Framework for Responsiveness in Psychotherapy
Hadas Wiseman and Sharon Egozi Chapter 4. Responsiveness to Ruptures and Repairs in Psychotherapy
Catherine F. Eubanks, Joey Sergi, and J. Christopher MuranPart II. Responsiveness in Different Therapeutic Approaches Chapter 5. Responsiveness in Psychodynamic Relational Psychotherapy
Orya Tishby Chapter 6. Responsiveness in Control-Mastery Theory
George Silberschatz Chapter 7. Context-Responsive Psychotherapy Integration Applied to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael J. Constantino, Brien J. Goodwin, Heather J. Muir, Alice E. Coyne, and James F. Boswell Chapter 8. Responsiveness in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Jeanne C. Watson Chapter 9. Responsiveness and Therapeutic Collaboration in Narrative Therapy
Eugénia Ribeiro, Miguel M. Gonçalves, and Dulce Pinto Chapter 10. Therapist Responsiveness in Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Adults and Their Nonaccepting Parents
Gary M. Diamond, Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir, and Ofir Nir-Gottlieb Chapter 11. Therapist Responsiveness in Treatments for Personality Disorders
Ueli Kramer Chapter 12. Enhancing Therapist Responsiveness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Jamie D. Bedics and Holly J. McKinley Chapter 13. Responsiveness in Integrative Therapies
James F. Boswell, Brittany R. King, Carly M. Schwartzman, Rachel H. Wasserman, and Michael J. ConstantinoPart III. Integration and Conclusions Chapter 14. Meeting the Challenge of Responsiveness: Synthesizing Perspectives
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman Index
About the Editors
About the author
Jeanne C. Watson, PhD, C.Psych., is a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, OISE. University of Toronto, Canada. A major exponent of humanistic-experiential psychotherapy, she has contributed to the development of emotion-focused therapy. Dr. Watson has conducted psychotherapy outcome studies to examine the effectiveness of different approaches to psychotherapy and the active ingredients of change. She has coauthored and coedited multiple books, including
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety with Leslie Greenberg. Dr. Watson was President of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research in 2014-2015 and recognized as an APA Fellow in 2013.
Hadas Wiseman, PhD, is a professor chair of the doctoral studies committee in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is also on faculty in the Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies. Her scholarly work and research focuses on the psychotherapy process, the therapeutic relationship, attachment in psychotherapy, personal and professional development of psychotherapists, and intergenerational trauma and interpersonal relationships in families of Holocaust survivors. She coedited
Developing the Therapeutic Relationship with Orya Tishby. Dr. Wiseman is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
Summary
Examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time. Contributors synthesize key research and identify common factors across the field of psychology as well as unique contributions that each approach offers.
