First Steps In The Clinical Practice Of Psychotherapy

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Preliminary Considerations: Framework for Becoming a Therapist. 1. How to conduct yourself 2. What a beginning therapist cannot do without: Clinical supervison personal therapy, continuing education 3. The therapeutic frame: Setting and maintaining boundaries 4. First contact: on the phone 5. Meeting the client 6. Initial consultation 7. The assessment process 8. Making a provisional diagnosis 9. Hierarchy of priorities in treatment 10. When and how to be directive; Suicide/tarasoff/abuse situations 11. How to hospitalize a patient 12. Coordinating services with other professionals 13. Working with minors, couples and families 14. Working with cour ordered clients 15. Theird party requests for information reguarding your client 16. Scenerios of client therapist interactions 17. Paperwork: Clinical notes and treatment summaries 18. Theoretical concepts 19. Margaret maahler's developmental model.