ABSTRACT
Emotional maturity is required of all Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) therapists who administer a disciplined personal involvement role. All of the authors have supervised and trained many professionals to be CBASP clinicians. CBASP training is the most novel therapeutic model on the landscape when it comes to the therapist role. One justification for the Disciplined Personal Involvement (DPI) role stems from the interpersonal model that CBASP is built upon and from the fact that most of these preoperational patients must be taught to interact interpersonally. Trainees are introduced to a model requiring that one be oneself with patients and to learn to use their emotional and cognitive reactions in contingent ways. CBASP therapists deliberately calibrate their interpersonal style by taking into account their patients' histories. These patients frequently expect to be either ignored or run-over by others and when clinicians behave in counter-conditioning ways, they offer abused patients qualitatively different interpersonal experiences.
