Transforming Negative Reactions to Clients: From Frustration to Compassion - Hardcover

Therapists are vulnerable to a wide range of uncomfortable emotions during the practice of psychotherapy. How a therapist manages these reactions has important consequences for the process and outcome of treatment. Spearheaded by three renowned scholars on psychotherapeutic practice, this edited volume will help therapists — established and novice — understand and constructively use the wide range of interfering feelings they experience in their working alliance with challenging patients.<br><br> Organised into three major parts, the chapters in <em>Transforming Negative Reactions</em> to Clients explore therapists' negative reactions across major therapeutic approaches and across various disorders, including borderline personality disorder. The concluding chapter contains practice and training recommendations. <br><br> Geared toward practising therapists and supervisors who help novice psychotherapists deal with the potential harmful emotions they may experience in their training, <em>Transforming Negative Reactions</em> to Clients draws on integrative and relational psychotherapy, research on the therapeutic alliance, and social psychology research on the reattribution of motive.