Maintaining the therapeutic alliance is a theme that runs through all of the stages because this working alliance is essential to addressing the tasks of each stage” (p.165) The establishing a working relationship stage also has four other goals that are important when working with this stage. The first one is “working with involuntary clients”, which is not all clients want to be counseled, they feel like they cannot be helped or don’t want help. Working with these kind of clients is not always
Introduction, Context and Overview: This essay will define the therapeutic alliance. It focuses on the key elements of the therapeutic alliance and the importance of the therapeutic relationship. It discusses the importance of the relationship in the therapeutic process and it will compare and contrast different therapeutic approaches and their views on what’s deemed important to the therapeutic alliance. Main Body of Paper: The therapeutic alliance has been described as possibly being the most important
Attachment Theory in the Therapeutic Alliance ....the therapist role is analogous to that of a mother who provides her son a secure base from which to explore the world (Bowlby, 1988). I was always intrigued by the fact that psychotherapy inevitably involves a kind of interaction between two (or more) people who bring with them their own baggage to the therapy. The client is the one who is being ‘helped’ in and from the process of therapy but self growth and personal development is bidirectional
the lack of familiarity with culture-specific knowledge, awareness and skills in their interaction with the diverse clients (Arredondo et al, 1996). Multicultural competence in counselling is defined in this essay as the ability to form the therapeutic alliance with a diverse client in a culturally appropriate manner (Arredondo et al, 1996), which refers to the counsellor’s ability to treat the diverse client with the level of dignity and respect that he/she
Many patients were subject to neglect and abuse. Asylum staff was cause for majority of injuries throughout patients. These clinics were more like prisons than hospitals (BBC Mental: A History). Even many ‘treatments’ were more torturous than therapeutic. A few of the more humane remedies include isolation, exercise, and busy work. One treatment even included tying patients to beds with wet and icy sheets and leaving them by an open window. A popular choice of remedy was giving patients coma-inducing