ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the connections and the patterns they create to better understand the powerful strength of intervention respect can have as well as the danger and malignancy disrespect, unrecognized and untreated, imposes. What the therapist brings to the therapist-client relationship is vitally important to the entire process and outcome of therapy. In recent years, much has been written and researched regarding mindfulness in therapy, as studied through the lenses interpersonal neurobiology and neural integration. The therapeutic relationship lays the foundation of respect but necessarily leads that experience of being respected toward healing and the awareness of the positive power of respect in everyday life. The chapter considers theoretical approaches as they relate to Respect-Focused Therapy (RFT), how they are supportive through similarities, as well as how RFT brings additional perspective, unifying all of these approaches through the lens of respect.
