Therapist‐conducted Consultation: Using Clients as Consultants to Their Own Therapy

Bischoff, Richard J.; McKeel, A. Jay; Moon, Sidney M.; Sprenkle, Douglas H.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1996.tb00211.x

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“…This difference raises the question of how far therapists over-rely on techniques, although I wonder whether, despite the differences in terminology, clients and therapists may be talking about the same thing! Bischoff et al (1996) explored clients' experiences of therapy while the therapy was still taking place. Like Hampson and Beavers (1996), they aimed at reducing unhelpful hierarchical differences…”

Section: Sigurd Reimersmentioning

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Understanding alliances. How can research inform user‐friendly practice?

Reimers¹

2001

Journal of Family Therapy

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'User-friendliness' is described as a therapist stance which involves attentiveness to the quality of the 'therapeutic relationship', both between therapist and family and between service providers and their public. This article draws on research published in the last seven years from within and outside the family therapy field which can help improve this relationship. I will argue that the issues which challenge user-friendly practice need to be related to the theories which inform family therapy and to the traditional tension within the research field between focusing on measurable outcomes or on user satisfaction. The urgency for a clear analysis of what can make family therapy practice more sensitive to its public comes partly from the relative state of maturity which family therapy has now reached and its need actively to work alongside other approaches. Other crucial influences considered are a greater public demand for choice and improvements in public services, and social policy trends towards greater efficiency and accountability within the helping services.

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Understanding alliances. How can research inform user‐friendly practice?

Reimers¹

2001

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Meta-analysis has also been used to isolate common factors such as clients' expectations (Barker, Funk, & Houston, 1988). Maione and Chenail (1999) noted that qualitative research methods have been used extensively to examine common factors in a variety of domains, and they have much promise both in terms of outcome assessment and as a means to improve treatment along the way (e.g., Bischoff, McKeel, Moon, & Sprenkle, 1996; Steenbarger, Smith, & Budman, 1996). If we are to operate from a common factors perspective, much more knowledge, and more specific knowledge, is needed.…”

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A common factors revolution: Let's not "cut off our discipline's nose to spite its face."

Chwalisz¹

2001

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Technique is but one feature, although a very prominent one, of the psychotherapeutic endeavor. Previous attempts by Bruce Wampold and others to downplay psychotherapeutic techniques and to endorse a common factors approach have met with strong scientific and political resistance. However, given the methodological merits of the H. Ann and Wampold study ( 2001) and the strong programmatic basis for their position, the author does not believe that a methodological debate is warranted. Instead, some of the major economic and professional forces in opposition to a common factors approach to psychotherapy research, practice, and training are outlined. Implications of a common factors revolution, and a proposed alternative, are also explored.I thank Jennette Lybeck-Brown for comments on an earlier version of this article, and I thank my students who continue to stimulate my thinking on these issues.

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“…The couple s response to the evaluation is to further assess realities, projections, and commitment in the relationship. Bischoff et al (14) in their paper describing "therapist-conducted consultations" came closest to the CAS in describing a collaborative process of assessment and treatment. They assert that their model supports a "forum in which the therapist and client" communicate actively about the treatment process and its goal(s) (p.378).…”

Section: The Cas: Becoming Privy To the Processmentioning

confidence: 99%