Cultivating the Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This book provides an evidence-based, up-to-date overview of the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Contemporary scholarship on the importance of the therapeutic alliance, or working relationship between therapist and client, is examined. Other aspects of the therapeutic relationship that receive less attention in the CBT literature are considered, including transference and countertransference and the real relationship. In addition, other factors relevant to a successful therapeutic relationship are discussed in the content of CBT. Throughout the book, insights from theoretical orientations other than CBT are integrated, and clinical applications are presented. This book represents the pinnacle of psychotherapy integration and is relevant to all practicing mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and counselors, and psychotherapy process researchers.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Centrality of the Therapeutic Relationship.- Chapter 2: A Social Healing Model and Its Application to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Chapter 3: Using CBT-Specific Relational Strategies to Foster the Therapeutic Relationship.- Chapter 4: The Alliance as an Evolving Positive Collaborative Quality During Therapy Sessions An Empirical Summary.- Chapter 5: Therapeutic Alliance Ruptures in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Chapter 6: Leveraging the Trait-Like and State-Like Distinction for a Personalized Approach to Repairing Alliance Ruptures in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Chapter 7: Transference and Countertransference: A Broad Cognitive Behavioral Approach.- Chapter 8: Patients and Therapists Emotional Schemas in the Therapeutic Relationship.- Chapter 9: The Real Relationship and the Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral TherapyChapter 10: Clinical Implementation of Goal Consensus and Collaboration.- Chapter 11: Therapy Dyads Participants Outcome Expectation and the Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Chapter 12: Promoting Treatment Engagement in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.- Chapter 13: Creating Authentic, Attuned, Evocative, and Healing Therapeutic Relationships: Strategies from Functional Analytic Psychotherapy.- Chapter 14: Clinical Guidance Points for Maximizing the Therapeutic Relationship and Creating Change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

About the author

Amy Wenzel, Ph.D., ABPP, is author or editor of over 25 authored and edited books and treatment manuals and over 125 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, many on the science and practice of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She is Founder and Director of the Main Line Center for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy, a trainer-consultant with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and an affiliated faculty member of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Dr. Wenzel has been awarded numerous grants to conduct empirical investigations of aspects of CBT from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (now the Brain & Behavior Foundation). Moreover, she has trained and supervised hundreds of clinicians to become certified cognitive behavioral therapists, she lectures internationally on CBT, she has been featured in several CBT video demonstrations published by the American Psychological Association, and she is on the editorial boards of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, the Intenational Journal of Cognitive Therapy, the Journal of Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapies and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Dr. Wenzel currently divides her time between clinical work, training and consultation, and scholarship, with her current interest focused on therapeutic relationship-focused CBT.

Summary

This book provides an evidence-based, up-to-date overview of the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Contemporary scholarship on the importance of the therapeutic alliance, or working relationship between therapist and client, is examined. Other aspects of the therapeutic relationship that receive less attention in the CBT literature are considered, including transference and countertransference and the real relationship. In addition, other factors relevant to a successful therapeutic relationship are discussed in the content of CBT. Throughout the book, insights from theoretical orientations other than CBT are integrated, and clinical applications are presented. This book represents the pinnacle of psychotherapy integration and is relevant to all practicing mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and counselors, and psychotherapy process researchers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Amy Wenzel (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.11.2025
• EAN: 9783032051905
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3205190-5
• No. of pages: 271
• Illustrations: VI, 271 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Series: CBT: Science Into Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; cognitive behavioral therapy, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, therapeutic relationship, therapeutic alliance, psychotherapy process