The
Second Edition of Herschel Knapp’s
Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills provides beginners and seasoned professionals with the skills to navigate the facts and feelings endemic to professional therapeutic communication. With a comprehensive perspective, Dr. Knapp clearly and effectively explains differences between casual and therapeutic relationships, focusing on key elements such as the therapeutic process, social and emotional factors, and professionalism. Organized into discrete sections to highlight individual skills, each chapter follows a unified format, encouraging readers to apply their knowledge frequently.
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Preface
1. Defining the Therapeutic Relationship
2. Getting Started
3. Following
4. Emotional Communication
5. Leading
Video Interview Self-Critique Exercise
Overview of Appendixes A, B, and C
Appendix A. Session With Dusty, Week 1, Initial Session
Appendix B. Session With Dusty, Week 5, Midtherapy
Appendix C. Session With Dusty, Week 10, Termination
Appendix D. Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
KEY FEATURES:
- Delineates the multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional clinician—direction is given for applying standards such as boundaries, ethics, self-disclosure, legal aspects, and client self-determination
- Provides transcription of three 50-minute sessions demonstrating the essentials of clinical skill integration, short-term therapy, and termination
- Offers annotated dialogue samples demonstrating the versatility of each skill and the rationale for using the specified skill
- Discusses the balance between objectivity and empathy, including emotional dynamics, transference, countertransference, self-awareness, and termination
