| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Description |
xx, 332 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321) and index. |
| Contents |
First contact -- The first moments -- Initiating an alliance and assessing safety -- Enhancing the therapeutic alliance and eliciting history -- Collecting a psychosocial history and screening for common psychological disorders -- Formulating a treatment plan -- The frame -- Setting the fee and billing -- Telephone calls: from dependencies to emergencies -- No-shows, late arrivals, and late departures -- Confidentiality and its limits -- Substance abuse -- Integrating psychopharmacology with psychotherapy -- Management of impasses -- Empathic lapses -- Transference and countertransference -- Termination. |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy.
|
| Added Author |
Messner, Edward.
|
| ISBN |
1572309431 |
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