Therapist immediacy in brief psychotherapy: Case study II.

Therapist immediacy in brief psychotherapy: Case study I.

The authors examined immediacy (i.e., discussions about the here-and-now therapeutic relationship) in a 12-session case of individual interpersonal psychotherapy. Therapist immediacy during immediacy events most often focused on parallels between external relationships and the therapy relationship, encouraging expression of immediate feelings, processing termination, therapist expressing disapp...

Tracking the Sequences of Patient-Therapist Dialogues by Coding Responses during Integrative Psychotherapy

Aim: The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Scale (APES) for the coding of client responses and the Process Focused Conversation Analysis (PFCA) for coding therapist responses were applied to transcripts of a successful case of integrative psychotherapy of depression. Methods: the research method of the present research was case study. Dialogues (150) between a therapist and client in one ...

Psychotherapy Preliminary Data From a Randomized Pilot Study of Web-Based Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Therapist Training

Psychodynamic origins of VBDT

The practice of brief psychotherapy is a distillate of the active ingredients in longer-term work but with the addition of two special elements: limited time and therapist activity in formulating a focus and focusing on it. Typically, patient and therapist work together over 10 to 25 sessions in weekly meetings. In very brief dynamic psychotherapy (VBDT), the time frame is shrunk to fewer than ...

Assessing and engaging suicidal teenagers in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: a case consultation.

Assessing and engaging suicidal adolescents in psychoanalytic psychotherapy is filled with complexity and stress, but offers a potential for lasting suicide prevention. This study provides a detailed account of the initial psychotherapy sessions with a suicidal teenager, drawing extensively on the comprehensive notes taken by the therapist. Four discussants were invited to provide their perspec...