About the Book
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.
Expert contributors from a variety of theoretical orientations synthesize key research and identify common factors across these approaches along with their unique contributions to the field of psychology.
Chapters first explore important broad concepts and strategies, including therapists attuning to their clients' needs, examining the importance of the therapeutic relationship, the role clinicians play as attachment figures for their clients, and repairing ruptures in the working alliance.
Building from this foundation, chapters then examine specific types of therapy in detail, including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, emotion-focused therapy, control-mastery theory, narrative therapy, attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ individuals and their nonaccepting caregivers, and integrative therapies. Authors review strategies for responding to specific client markers, cultural diversity considerations, guidance for training and supervision, and directions for future research.
Clinical case examples enrich the material, demonstrating the dos and don'ts of responsiveness with diverse clients.
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring Responsiveness and Attunement in Psychotherapy
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman
Part I. The Case for Responsiveness
Chapter . 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 Muran
Part II. Responsiveness in Different Therapeutic Approaches
Chapter 5. Responsiveness in Psychodynamic Relational Psychotherapy
Orya Tishby
Chapter . 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
Eug amp eacute nia Ribeiro, Miguel M. Gon amp ccedil alves, and Dulce Pinto
Chapter . 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 . Therapist Responsiveness in Treatments for Personality Disorders
Ueli Kramer
Chapter 2. Enhancing Therapist Responsiveness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Jamie D. Bedics and Holly J. McKinley
Chapter 3. Responsiveness in Integrative Therapies
James F. Boswell, Brittany R. King, Carly M. Schwartzman, Rachel H. Wasserman, and Michael J. Constantino
Part III. Integration and Conclusions
Chapter 4. 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 2 4-2 5 and recognized as an APA Fellow in 2 3. 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.
Review :
This edited volume on therapist responsiveness highlights vexing dilemmas faced by psychotherapy researchers who grapple with the dazzling complexity that is the relational enterprise between patient and therapist. A wide array of clinical phenomena illustrates how therapist responsiveness is at the core of what makes any psychotherapy work. - Lisa Wallner Samstag, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Director of Psychotherapy Research, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY amp ldquo Responsiveness amp rdquo has been a buzzword in recent years without a clear delineation of what it means. Written by the experts in the field, this book finally gives us a glimpse of what it means to be responsive to clients, which, of course, we all want to be. Clinicians will benefit from this excellent book by being able to learn about how and when to be responsive to clients researchers will benefit from having clear guidelines about what responsiveness means and trainees will benefit from having expert wisdom about how therapy truly is implemented. - Clara E. Hill, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park Responsiveness is arguably the most innovative and clinically valuable of contemporary clinical concepts. Watson and Wiseman amp rsquo s new book is a great contribution to the emerging literature on this topic, offering experience-near ways of understanding how this concept can be understood and helpfully applied across multiple theoretical approaches. - Barry A. Farber, PhD, Professor, Clinical Psychology Program, Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
