Description
Book SynopsisThis book teaches the skills therapists need to understand and empathize with clients, develop strong therapeutic alliances, make accurate contextualized assessments, and facilitate positive change.
Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition
Part I. Introduction to Empathy and the Mental Health Professional
Chapter 1. What Is Empathy, and Why Does It Matter?
Part II. Building a Framework for Understanding People
Chapter 2. Understanding Meaning Systems
Chapter 3. Understanding Culture, Identity, and Oppression
Part III. Developing Empathic Assessments
Chapter 4. Building the Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 5. Communicating Empathy Verbally
Chapter 6. Assessing People in Context
Chapter 7. Thinking Critically to Ensure Accurate Assessments
Part IV. Facilitating Positive Change
Chapter 8. Developing Goals and a Treatment Plan
Chapter 9. Providing Empathic Interventions
Chapter 10. Ending Treatment
Part V. Professional Issues
Chapter 11. Ethics
Chapter 12. Writing Empathic Clinical Reports
Chapter 13. Self-Care
References
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
