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Becoming a
Therapist
What Do I Say, and Why?
Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner
This book provides students and novice clinicians with nuts-and-bolts advice about the
process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient. Filling a
typical gap in clinical training, the book focuses on such real-world tasks as setting up
appointments and discussing payment, conducting effective assessments while setting
patients at ease, and dealing with mundane and serious clinical concerns, including
suicidality. Featured are a wealth of sample therapist-patient dialogues that bring each
situation to life. Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner--a junior clinician and a seasoned
practitioner and supervisor--provide a unique, combined perspective on how therapy is
conducted, what works and what doesn't work in treatment, and how to take care of oneself
as a clinician. Each chapter opens with a concise summary and concludes with a list of key
terms. The book also includes a helpful glossary and suggestions for further reading.
I. The Consultation
1. First Contact
2. The First Moments
3. Initiating an Alliance and Assessing Safety
4. Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Eliciting History
5. Collecting a Psychosocial History and Screening for Common Psychological Disorders
6. Formulating a Treatment Plan
II. Frame and Variations
7. The Frame
8. Setting the Fee and Billing
9. Telephone Calls: From Dependencies to Emergencies
10. No-Shows, Late Arrivals, and Late Departures
11. Confidentiality and Its Limits
III. Chemistry
12. Substance Abuse
13. Integrating Psychopharmacology with Psychotherapy
IV. Therapeutic Dilemmas
14. Management of Impasses
15. Empathic Lapses
16. Transference and Countertransference
17. Termination
ORDER CODE: GP0804B
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