In this article, we discuss the role of the therapist in change in couple and family therapy. We
argue that the therapist is a key change ingredient in most successful therapy. We situate …

Grounded in theory, research, and extensive clinical experience, this pragmatic book
addresses critical questions of how change occurs in couple and family therapy and how to …

This study premises that self‐of‐the‐therapist work is pivotal in the development of effective
therapists. However, therapy models vary in their goals for this work and the means of …

Psychotherapy research shows that—in individual therapy as in family therapy—some
therapists are more effective than others. This highlights the crucial role the therapist plays in …

In this paper, we propose that therapist anxiety in the therapy room, especially anxiety stirred
up by difficult or triggering clients, represents a challenge to effective therapy, and that …

Fifty‐five clinicians who provided teletherapy to couples, partnerships, families, and kin
networks during the first two months of the coronavirus pandemic responded to a survey …

The importance of use of self in therapy has been growing in recent years, in part because of
the rise in popularity of postmodern therapeutic approaches. Such postmodern approaches …

ABSTRACT The Person-of-the-Therapist Training (POTT) model has been developing and
evolving since the late seventies. The current study explored the relationship between the …

Interpersonal and intrapersonal qualities of the therapist are intimately related to therapeutic
alliance and therapeutic outcome. Most training programs pay close attention to how to …

This qualitative study used a phenomenological approach to understand:(a) whether and
how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model helps beginning therapists gain awareness of …