Advantages And Disadvantages Of Therapeutic Alliance

The 'counsellor-client work alliance' (Burwell & Chen, 2006) is essential for a productive and active client as it ensures motivation and empowerment through the collaborative identification of strengths, progress and development in relation to achieving their preferred future and to identify strengths to accomplish this outcome, also known as co-constructing solutions (O'Connelle 2005)

The text means that we should integrate our personal and profession selves together to provide better service to the client. I agree with the statement, as social workers we are taught to connect with the client on their level. If we approach a person in a professional manner the client may neglect to tell the social workers some details or even feel uncomfortable. In we integrate our professional selves and personal selves we will be a better service to the client because we would be able to connect with the client better. Which can be related to therapeutic alliance.

Therapeutic relationships ease and comfort a client`s mind. A full-bodied therapeutic relationship fosters a comfortable environment constituting contentment, thus decreasing anxiety levels (Gardner,

This first topic will be a reflection of content that has been applied to and the strengths of the roleplay. The very start of the therapy process from the point to meeting a client is very important to engage the therapeutic alliance (Wener, et al., 2015, p. 312). A way to start engaging with the alliance is by presenting an open and respectful manner to the client, during the role play this initial phrase was

Common factors are not located solely in the therapist but also in the client not solely in the intra-therapy alliance, but also in the broader environmental context; not solely in formal treatment,

Therapeutic relationship is defined as the collaboration and attachment between the client and therapist that focuses on meeting the health care needs of the client (Bordin, 1979). In this relationship, the therapist without prejudice shows Empathy, insight, understanding and acceptance of the client. Duan and Hill (1996) defined Empathy as “feeling into” the experience of the client. Over the years, the research evidence keeps piling up, and indicating a high degree of Empathy in a Therapeutic relationship is possibly one of the most potent factors in bringing about positive outcome in the therapy

Research has shown that a strong therapeutic alliance is necessary for establishing a beneficial contact between the therapist and the client. If the therapist does not encourage the creation of a reliable therapeutic alliance from the beginning of the treatment, it will be hard to develop a constructive relationship with the client later. Establishing the therapeutic alliance will increase the chances of achieving the goal of the treatment because the clients will be willing to cooperate if they trust and respect the therapist. Clients are not likely to cooperate with therapists who impose their authority aggressively. Instead of imposing their authority on the patient, therapists should develop work with their patients by

I am on a life-long path as a Skilled Helper (Egan) with some training in Integrative Psychotherapy. I am currently striving to integrate Carl Rogers’ ideas and practices into my existing knowledge framework whilst attempting to see previously identified phenomena through new eyes. My aim is to use this knowledge to influence my practice as co-creator of therapeutic relationships. My principal aims in this essay are to define some of the basic ideas of Rogers, to then describe how this links and informs his notions of a joint therapeutic endeavour through his Core

Collaboration concentrates on helping a client comprehend the effect of the injuries or illness, clarify the client’s issues and priorities, define occupational problems, and even create better insight into their impairments. (Cole & Tefano, 2008) Integrating collaboration makes clients active partners in their own therapy, a problem of early psychoanalysis. Albert Ellis, created the rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a cognitive system that focused on a client’s emotional disturbances caused by their irrational belief systems. (Brown & Stoffel, 2011) REBT is used to facilitate a client’s understanding that their irrational beliefs are the cause of emotional disturbances, and not their distressing events. Occupational therapists will concentrate more on a client’s “surface-level automatic thoughts, intermediate assumptions, ‘rules for living,’ and aspects of core beliefs related to occupational performance.”

By examining the bond between a therapist and his client we can further understand how important the role of therapeutic alliance is in treatment outcome. The authors point out that therapeutic alliance plays a major positive impact on the outcome of therapy. Individuals who build good therapeutic alliances with their therapists experience more productive and effective therapy than individuals who do not.

Therapy is often said to be just as much of an art as it is a science. Namely because there is so much that goes into it. To create a successful therapeutic relationship, there are some key elements that need to be a part of the formula. Each therapist may end up having a different recipe, but it is important that a therapist knows what ingredients he or she may need and what they can add for it to be successful. Throughout this paper, this writer will discuss characteristics she hopes to embody as a therapist, as well as the values and skills she wishes to bring with her into a therapeutic relationship.

According to Fonagy, it is to “(1) To establish an attachment relationship with the patient; (2) to use this to create an interpersonal context where understanding of mental states becomes a focus; and (3) to create situations (mostly implicitly) where the self is recognized as intentional and real by the therapist, and this recognition is clearly perceived by the patient”. Clinicians who use psychoanalysis can also use mentalization tactics as a buffer. Some another mechanism of change are transference, therapeutic alliance and therapeutic stance. According to Safran (2012), “ Transference allows the client to view the therapist in terms that are shaped by their experiences with important caregivers and other significant figures in their developmental background”. Therapeutic alliance can be thought of as having a good relationship with the client. therapeutic stance encompasses that the therapist abstinence, anonymity and neutrality. Therapists can also use their client’s dreams, to assist them in therapy. Freud called dreams a royal road to the unconscious (Safran, 2012, p.90). Safran gives an case example, his client had a dream 5 months after they started working together and it led to the exploration of

A therapeutic relationship is a professional, inter-personal alliance in which the nurse and client join together for a defined period to achieve health-related treatment goals (Chauhan & Long, 2000), which may only last for a short period of time but

There are many variables that influence the success of therapy for the client, none more so than the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic relationship is defined as the strength and collaborative relationship between the client and therapist that emphasises mutually agreed goals and tasks within the context of a strong affective bond (Horvath, 1994.) In the therapeutic relationship, the clinician offers care, touch, compassion, presence, and any other act or attitude that would foster healing, and expects nothing in return (Trout, 2013.) Some clinicians believe that the “therapeutic relationship is a precondition of change, others as the fertile soil that permits change, while others see it as the central mechanism of change itself” (Norcross, 2010.) This is not to devalue other variables that impact the success of the therapy such as client involvement and the treatment method.

“Relationship” is a term that has been used in many different situations. It could imply the ties between two people in love, the bond between family members or close friends or colleagues or even the bond between a person and his or her pet. In conselling, relationship takes on a more specific meaning. The counsellor establishes rapport with the client based on trust, respect and mutual prupose. When there is good rapport, a positive psychological climate is created and vice-versa. The likelihood of desirable outcomes is greater when the psychological climate is positive. Mutual purpose means both the counsellor and client have common goals leading to what has been described as a