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DEVELOPING
the THERAPEUTIC
RELATIONSHIP
the THERAPEUTIC
RELATIONSHIP
Integrating Case Studies,
Research, and Practice
Edited by
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman
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Contributors.................................................................................................. xi
Introduction................................................................................................... 3
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman
Chapter 1. The Psychotherapy Relationship:
Where Does the Alliance Fit?.......................................... 15
Adam O. Horvath
vii
Chapter 4. Closeness and Distance Dynamics
in the Therapeutic Relationship...................................... 81
Hadas Wiseman and Dana Atzil-Slonim
Chapter 5. Facilitating the Sense of Feeling Understood
in Patients With Maladaptive Relationships................. 105
Sigal Zilcha-Mano and Jacques P. Barber
Chapter 6. Clinical Choice Points and Professional Ethics
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in Psychoanalysis............................................................ 133
Gaby Shefler
Chapter 7. The Therapeutic Relationship: A Warm,
Important, and Potentially Mutative Factor
in Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy................................. 157
Louis G. Castonguay, Soo Jeong Youn, Henry Xiao,
and Andrew A. McAleavey
Chapter 8. Negotiating Multiple Roles and Stances
in Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy................................. 181
Yoni Elizur and Jonathan D. Huppert
Chapter 9. Affirming the Case for Positive Regard ......................... 211
Barry A. Farber and Jessica Y. Suzuki
Chapter 10. Empathy and Responsiveness
in Emotion-Focused Therapy..........................................235
Jeanne C. Watson
Chapter 11. Where the Alliance and Systems Theory Meet
in Brief Family Therapy................................................. 257
Laurie Heatherington, Valentín Escudero,
and Myrna L. Friedlander
Chapter 12. The Use of Immediacy in Supervisory Relationships....... 289
Clara E. Hill and Shudarshana Gupta
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contributors
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Shudarshana Gupta, PhD, Diversity Coordinator and Staff Clinician,
Counseling Center, Towson University, Towson, MD
Laurie Heatherington, PhD, Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Psychol-
ogy, Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown,
MA
Clara E. Hill, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of
Maryland, College Park
Adam O. Horvath, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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DEVELOPING
RELATIONSHIP
the THERAPEUTIC
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Introduction
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman
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During the last 2 decades, remarkable progress has been made in psycho
therapy research, specifically in the development of evidence-based treat-
ments for a range of disorders (e.g., Barlow, 2014; Lambert, 2013; Nathan
& Gorman, 2002; Norcross & Wampold, 2011; Weisz & Kazdin, 2010).
However, the mechanisms through which these therapies influence outcome
are generally not yet well understood (Barber, Muran, McCarthy, & Keefe,
2013; Barber & Sharpless, 2015; Kazdin, 2011) and, furthermore, the strat-
egy of matching research-based treatments to specific disorders is not always
effective (Wampold & Imel, 2015). Attempts to delineate the active ingre-
dients in the different treatments have pitted treatment methods against
relationship variables, or specific versus common factors, as core mechanisms
of change in the therapy process (Castonguay, 2011; Norcross & Lambert,
2011). However, years of research have shown that studying technique and
relationship variables as separate entities yields inconsistent results, suggesting
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that different change mechanisms play different roles with different clients
(e.g., Webb, DeRubeis, & Barber, 2010; Webb et al., 2012).
In light of this, researchers have shifted the focus to how relationship
variables and techniques interact with one another and affect outcome in
different treatment modalities, and how technique is applied in the con-
text of a particular relationship (Castonguay & Beutler, 2005; Goldfried &
Davila, 2005; Hill, 2005; Horvath, Del Re, Flückiger, & Symonds, 2011).
One of the conclusions of the second APA task force on the therapeutic
relationship (Norcross & Wampold, 2011) was that “the relationship acts
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introduction 5
contributes, together with technique, to successful outcome. Emphasis is
on the unfolding of the client–therapist interaction and the development
of the therapeutic relationship in their case study, rather than on discrete
relationship variables (e.g., empathy, alliance, self-disclosure) or on schools
of psychotherapy.
In examining the process of change in the case studies, the authors of
each chapter outline their theoretical basis for the case (which may represent
one or more models of psychotherapy) and describe the course of therapy.1 In
addition to the detailed case analysis in each chapter, the authors’ relevant
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of psychotherapy, the contributors of the clinical cases formulated their con-
ceptual lenses in the broader context of specific schools. Some adhere more
closely to a specific school than others, but what is common to all is going
beyond the boundaries of a specific major school of psychotherapy and break-
ing new ground for understanding what takes place between the client and
therapist.
Schools of Psychotherapy
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process, and that the therapist has to make difficult choices regarding whether
to break those boundaries in order to maintain the alliance.
The supervisory relationship provides the template for developing the
therapy relationship. Thus, by focusing on the processing of the relation-
ship in supervision, supervisees can incorporate these supervisor–supervisee
experiences into their clinical work. Hill and Gupta (Chapter 12) apply the
concept of “immediacy” (talking about the here and now in the relationship),
which they have studied in the therapeutic relationship to the supervisory
process. They present several vignettes that show how the use of immediacy
helped resolve problems or tensions in supervision, which in turn helped
supervisees in their work with clients.
introduction 9
had been abused as a child. The authors describe positive regard as “most
effectively conveyed through multiple and ever-changing expressions of both
verbal and nonverbal communication” (p. 212). Watson (Chapter 10) focuses
on the central role of therapist empathy and responsiveness in emotion-
focused therapy. She focuses on listening to clients closely and responding
to their emotional needs in the moment and emphasizes attunement, accep-
tance, congruence, and warmth, and how these qualities contribute to changes
in clients’ self-structures.
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Chapter 13, by Messer and Fishman, offers a general framework for orga-
nizing these chapters (2–12) according to the different foci and lenses on the
therapeutic relationship. This framework maps each chapter along two major
dimensions: (a) The therapist’s goal in establishing a relationship vis-à-vis
therapeutic change: Is the relationship a necessary but insufficient compo-
nent, or is it the central focus of therapy? (b) How directly does the technique
address the therapeutic relationship versus techniques that impact the rela-
tionship, although they do not address it directly? These two dimensions form
a two-by-two grid with four cells, and the cases are placed in their respective
cells. Thus, readers can get an overall grasp of the similarities and differences
between the different therapies in terms of the centrality of the relationship
and its function in each treatment.
This book can be used in a number of ways for training and super
vision for both beginning and advanced trainees. The debate on how to teach
psychotherapy (e.g., Castonguay, Eubanks, Goldfried, Muran, & Lutz, 2015;
how family systems and alliance meet, some basic understanding of systems
theory needs to be acquired and then be followed by reading and reflecting
on the alliance as it plays out with different family members. More advanced
trainees would be better equipped to compare and contrast the relation-
ship themes presented in each chapter and think about how they could be
used in therapy in different ways. For those, the Messer and Fishman grid
(Chapter 13) would serve as a fruitful and broader prism to appreciate the
breadth and complexity of the relationship. We propose that the chapters
in this book can actually constitute an outline for a course syllabus on the
therapeutic relationship. In addition to reading chapters, course instructors
could accompany the chapters with demonstration video recordings to iden-
tify and observe these relationship processes, as well as to generate exercises
to practice them.
One central theme that emerges from these clinical cases is the impor-
tance of monitoring the relationship throughout treatment. The supervisor
can pick which process in the relationship he or she views the trainee as ready
to apply, and can focus on guiding the trainee to attend to it and choose the
relevant techniques to facilitate the process. As trainees gain experience and
confidence, the supervisor can broaden their relational perspective by focus-
ing on additional concepts the trainees can learn to recognize and monitor.
A case in point is the use of types of immediacy, which requires some level
of confidence before the supervisee can implement it with their clients. As
Hill and Gupta suggest, the use of immediacy in supervision is a good way to
experientially teach supervisees its application in the therapies they conduct.
Such extensions for creative applications in supervision could be used with
other relational themes and layers that are described in the chapters.
We hope that by integrating relationship and technique in innovative
ways our book will appeal to clinicians from diverse orientations who will be
able to draw on the relational concepts presented in the cases. In present-
ing research linked to clinical practice, we also hope to pique the interest of
clinicians to conduct research, with the goal of improving the therapy we
offer our clients.
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Introduction
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman
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During the last 2 decades, remarkable progress has been made in psycho
therapy research, specifically in the development of evidence-based treat-
ments for a range of disorders (e.g., Barlow, 2014; Lambert, 2013; Nathan
& Gorman, 2002; Norcross & Wampold, 2011; Weisz & Kazdin, 2010).
However, the mechanisms through which these therapies influence outcome
are generally not yet well understood (Barber, Muran, McCarthy, & Keefe,
2013; Barber & Sharpless, 2015; Kazdin, 2011) and, furthermore, the strat-
egy of matching research-based treatments to specific disorders is not always
effective (Wampold & Imel, 2015). Attempts to delineate the active ingre-
dients in the different treatments have pitted treatment methods against
relationship variables, or specific versus common factors, as core mechanisms
of change in the therapy process (Castonguay, 2011; Norcross & Lambert,
2011). However, years of research have shown that studying technique and
relationship variables as separate entities yields inconsistent results, suggesting
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Developing the Therapeutic Relationship: Integrating Case Studies, Research, and Practice, O. Tishby
and H. Wiseman (Editors)
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that different change mechanisms play different roles with different clients
(e.g., Webb, DeRubeis, & Barber, 2010; Webb et al., 2012).
In light of this, researchers have shifted the focus to how relationship
variables and techniques interact with one another and affect outcome in
different treatment modalities, and how technique is applied in the con-
text of a particular relationship (Castonguay & Beutler, 2005; Goldfried &
Davila, 2005; Hill, 2005; Horvath, Del Re, Flückiger, & Symonds, 2011).
One of the conclusions of the second APA task force on the therapeutic
relationship (Norcross & Wampold, 2011) was that “the relationship acts
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