ABSTRACT
This book has been written with students, beginning therapists, and more seasoned practitioners in mind, professionals who are feeling stuck, slightly burned out, and concerned that they are “missing” some training, skill, or awareness of how to practice effective therapy. The latter practitioner may be working too hard at the wrong things. This book is designed to provide the experiences recommended above, and help developing therapists to learn about the processes that underlie effective outcomes with a wide variety of clients. This goal is guided and supported by several recurring themes:
1. Highly effective (i.e., “expert”) therapists think in a different way from novices that allows them to connect and intervene with clients successfully and efficiently. Readers are introduced to the thinking processes of those practitioners (i.e., therapists with consistently good therapeutic outcomes) as they pertain to clinical assessment and intervention, which we believe will increase their knowledge and skill as therapists as well as reduce feelings of loss, confusion, frustration, inadequacy, and burnout.
