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Don't Lose Your Patients: Responding to Clients Who Want to Quit Treatment
Herbert S. Strean
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hardcover. Teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. The author challenges recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the honeymoon phase, in the face of the first treatment crisis, or later still. Num Pages: 248 pages, index, references. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Premature termination—patient dropout, in Dr. Herbert s. Strean's dependably conversational idiom—is a blow to the therapist's self-esteem, professional status, and pocketbook. Traditionally, responsibility for it has been imputed to the patient's resistance or lack or loss of motivation. In keeping with contemporary recognition that the therapeutic process is a reciprocally influential partnership, however, Dr. Strean teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. He brings forty years of professional practice to the challenge of recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the ... Read more
Premature termination—patient dropout, in Dr. Herbert s. Strean's dependably conversational idiom—is a blow to the therapist's self-esteem, professional status, and pocketbook. Traditionally, responsibility for it has been imputed to the patient's resistance or lack or loss of motivation. In keeping with contemporary recognition that the therapeutic process is a reciprocally influential partnership, however, Dr. Strean teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. He brings forty years of professional practice to the challenge of recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jason Aronson, Inc. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765701718
SKU
V9780765701718
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About Herbert S. Strean
Herbert S. Strean, D.W.S., is distinguished professor emritus and Rutgers University and director emeritus of the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training.
Reviews for Don't Lose Your Patients: Responding to Clients Who Want to Quit Treatment
Dr. Herbert Strean shares the thoughtful insights of an experienced and sensitive clinician about how we inadvertently push our patients out of treatment at each stage of the process from the first phone call on. Even the most seasoned of us will learn more about what we are doing—to the benefit of our case loads to be sure, but, more ... Read more