Harness principles that inform a successful therapeutic alliance.
When therapist are effective they attend to the therapy relationship with patients to bring positive changes.
Non-therapists can pay attention to “alliances” with others and create benefit for their relationships.Create and act on possibilities for a mutually beneficial relationship. When I first had the idea for this post, I wasn’t sure there was any benefit to thinking like I, or many of my colleagues might. Therapists are not perfect human beings. We experience stress and struggles like any other professional. We also, like all disciplines, vary widely. Therapists can be quite different in how they conceptualize their patients’ struggles, how they go about solving problems, how they manage emotions themselves – basically how they think.
So, as I’m arguing here, shrinks who think about, engage, and consciously harness the therapy relationship as a means for helping patients are effective, and there’s something here worth all of us bringing to the various tables of relationships we gather around. Yes, techniques are important, particularly in specific situations, but when it comes to what good therapists do that you could too, learning to think how they think with regard to the therapy relationship is a safe bet.
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