Informationen zum Autor D. Corydon Hammond is a psychologist, professor, andco-director of the Sex and Martial Therapy Clinic at the Universityof Utah School of Medicine. He is a past president of the AmericanSociety of Clinical Hypnosis. Dean H. Hepworth is retired. He was associate dean andprofessor of the Graduate School of Social Work, University ofUtah. Veon G. Smith, deceased, was a professor in the GraduateSchool of Social Work and director of the Marriage and FamilyCounseling Bureau, University of Utah. Klappentext Improving Therapeutic Communication was first published in 1977 and has become a classic guide for mental health professionals, students, interns, and trainees who want to refine their basic people skills and improve their therapeutic bedside manner. The book includes fundamental principles, practical guidelines and exercises that aim to instill and enhance the fundamental skills needed to respond to clients in a helpful manner. This first paperback edition of the best-selling guide also includes a new foreword by author D. Corydon Hammond. Throughout the book, the authors focus on the basic skills that facilitate communications in therapy (empathy, respect, authenticity, relating in the here-and-now, and confrontation) and explore specific methods of using them. These skills--which research shows are crucial to effective therapy--enable therapists and counselors to Empathize in a caring way with the feelings of clients Become receptive to clients in a warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental way Constructively share feelings with clients in a natural, open manner Therapeutically utilize moment-to-moment, here-and-now interaction Make clients aware of their inconsistencies and discrepancies without arousing antagonism or defensiveness In addition, the book describes specific methods for enhancing these skills and offers a series of highly practical communication skill-building exercises that start on a simple level and become increasingly complex. The book also contains helpful self-assessments of skill development. The authors further demonstrate how to increase sensitivity to clients' feelings, point out counterproductive patterns of communication, and describe relevant research connecting the basic skills with positive therapeutic results. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the basic skills that facilitate communication in therapy (empathy! respect! authenticity and confrontation) and methods of using them! this book aims to enable therapists and counselors to empathize in a caring way! become receptive in a warm! respectful and nonjudgmental way! and share feelings with clients in a natural! open manner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword. Preface. The Authors. 1. Effective Elements in Counseling and Psychotherapy. 2. Processes and Phases in Counseling and Psychotherapy. 3. Barriers to Effective Communication. 4. Developing Perceptiveness to Feelings. 5. Responding Empathically to the Client s Expressions: Reciprocal Responses. 6. Expanding the Client s Meaning: Additive Responses. 7. Relating to Clients with Respect. 8. Relating to Clients with Genuineness. 9. Examining Here and Now Feelings and Interactions Within the Counseling Relationship. 10. Using Confrontation to Remove Barriers to Communication and Change. 11. Communication Processes in Effective Therapy: Summary References. Index. ...

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Improving Therapeutic Communication was first published in 1977 and has become a classic guide for mental health professionals, students, interns, and trainees who want to refine their basic people skills and improve their therapeutic bedside manner. The book includes fundamental principles, practical guidelines and exercises that aim to instill and enhance the fundamental skills needed to respond to clients in a helpful manner. This first paperback edition of the best-selling guide also includes a new foreword by author D. Corydon Hammond.
Throughout the book, the authors focus on the basic skills that facilitate communications in therapy (empathy, respect, authenticity, relating in the here-and-now, and confrontation) and explore specific methods of using them. These skills--which research shows are crucial to effective therapy--enable therapists and counselors to

Empathize in a caring way with the feelings of clients
Become receptive to clients in a warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental way
Constructively share feelings with clients in a natural, open manner
Therapeutically utilize moment-to-moment, here-and-now interaction
Make clients aware of their inconsistencies and discrepancies without arousing antagonism or defensiveness In addition, the book describes specific methods for enhancing these skills and offers a series of highly practical communication skill-building exercises that start on a simple level and become increasingly complex. The book also contains helpful self-assessments of skill development. The authors further demonstrate how to increase sensitivity to clients' feelings, point out counterproductive patterns of communication, and describe relevant research connecting the basic skills with positive therapeutic results.

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Focusing on the basic skills that facilitate communication in therapy (empathy, respect, authenticity and confrontation) and methods of using them, this book aims to enable therapists and counselors to empathize in a caring way, become receptive in a warm, respectful and nonjudgmental way, and share feelings with clients in a natural, open manner.

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Foreword. Preface. The Authors. 1. Effective Elements in Counseling and Psychotherapy. 2. Processes and Phases in Counseling and Psychotherapy. 3. Barriers to Effective Communication. 4. Developing Perceptiveness to Feelings. 5. Responding Empathically to the Client s Expressions: Reciprocal Responses. 6. Expanding the Client s Meaning: Additive Responses. 7. Relating to Clients with Respect. 8. Relating to Clients with Genuineness. 9. Examining Here and Now Feelings and Interactions Within the Counseling Relationship. 10. Using Confrontation to Remove Barriers to Communication and Change. 11. Communication Processes in Effective Therapy: Summary References. Index.