In this historical series of blog posts discussing the journey to client-directed therapeutic services, the previous topic was changing the rules. This post shares insights gained from The Heroic...
Journey to Client-Directed Therapeutic Services: Changing the Rules
September 24 2020
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…before the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS)—yes, way back in 1986, I became very interested in the common factors because of Michael...
....a ménage a trois made in heaven...
Clients Who Made Me Better: First Lessons
October 16 2018
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 4: The Client’s Theory of Change
October 09 2018
Ideally, therapists should select for each patient the therapy that accords, or can be brought to accord, with the patient’s personal characteristics and view of the problem. - Jerome Frank
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 3: The Tasks of Therapy
October 02 2018
The alliance is the central filter of all your words and actions: Is what I am saying and doing now building or risking the alliance? Bordin (1979) classically defined the alliance with three...
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 2: Client Goals
September 26 2018
The alliance is an all-encompassing framework for psychotherapy — it transcends any specific therapist behavior and is a property of all aspects of providing services. It calls for your utmost...
Reliance on the Alliance, Part 1
September 17 2018
Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And when you listen deeply, you can know yourself in everyone.
The Heroic Client
September 05 2018
Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. African Proverb