Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach [Hardcover]

Edward Teyber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0534362958 | ISBN-13: 978-0534362959 | Edition: 4

In this one-of-a-kind book, experienced educator and clinician, Ed Teyber provides a unifying conceptual framework for beginning therapists and specific "how-to's" for using the therapist-client relationship to facilitate change. Clinically authentic and thoroughly revised, this new edition gets right to the heart of what students who are beginning to work in a therapeutic setting need to know. Capturing the questions and concerns of beginning therapists, Teyber helps student therapists understand the therapeutic process and how change occurs. The book includes therapeutic goals and intervention strategies for each phase of treatment, and is organized to parallel the course of treatment from initial client contact to termination. Teyber succeeds in bridging the gap between basic skills, case formulations, and intervention strategies with real clients in real settings. Always focused on the therapist-client relationship, this book integrates cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and psychodynamic theories. Multicultural coverage is thorough and richly illustrated. Highlighting how the interpersonal, cognitive, and affective domains interrelate, the book is compelling reading for beginning counselors. Teyber clarifies each of the major issues that arise in treatment and shows how theory leads to practice. He skillfully leads beginning counselors past the uncertainty of how to build a strong working alliance with divers clients, and gives guidelines for understanding the interactions that take place between therapists and clients. Long known for its clarity and immediacy, Teyber's new edition is now accompanied by a powerful teaching and learning package. With the combination of the new edition of this highly respected text, your classroom instruction, the new student workbook, and the new video that shows process in practice, your students will have all the ingredients for success.

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About the Author

Edward Teyber is a psychology professor and director of the psychology clinic at California State University, San Bernardino. Dr. Teyber received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. He is also the author of the popular-press book HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH DIVORCE and a textbook published by Brooks/Cole, CASEBOOK IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT TREATMENT:CULTURAL AND FAMILIAL CONTEXTS 2ND EDITION. Dr. Teyber maintains a part-time private practice and he also enjoys supervision and clinical training.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 4 edition (October 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534362958
• ISBN-13: 978-0534362959
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for psychologists!, May 20, 1998

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Michelle "amesiowa" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach (Hardcover)

In my seven years of doctoral training in psychology, this is by far the most helpful textbook I ever purchased. Teyber provides a coherent articulation of how the therapeutic relationship fosters client change. It is one of the most readable, usable texts I've ever encountered. Even though it is intended for beginning practicum students, I often refer back to it when I am stuck with a difficult client. I supervise doctoral students in-training, and this book is always my first recommendation.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully concise framework for therapy, August 17, 2003

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Brent A. Huffman (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach (Hardcover)

I was a doctoral student in clinical psychology when I first read this wonderful book. I had struggled with the coldly analytic nature of cognitive therapy while not feeling 100% comfortable with the more abstract nature of some of the humanistic approaches to treating patients. When I came across Teyber's text, it felt like a breath of fresh air in that he was able to provide a cohesive framework for working with a patient's sense of self without ignoring or minimizing the emotional aspects of therapy. I have now moved on and have completed an M.D., but I still value Teyber's work whenever I struggle to understand the world that my patients' experience and the emotional consequences of that world.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, Concise, and Refreshingly Helpful!, August 28, 2001

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Dianne Swanson (Yucaipa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach (Hardcover)

As a beginning therapist I found the Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach, by Edward Teyber, to be extremely helpful and useful. This book effectively translates the often abstract and intangible framework of relational counseling theories into pragmatic interpersonal interventions. Dr. Teyber's words do not read like a theoretical textbook, but rather, as an easy to interpret and highly applicable manual for the student therapist. This book provides the reader with clear and concise explanations of theoretical components so as to assist in the formulation of case conceptualizations. The text provides descriptions, interpretations, and the use of specific relational and interpersonal interventions. Lastly, Dr. Teyber provides extremely helpful vignettes demonstrating the concepts and interventions with sample dialogues between clients and therapists. Throughout this book the reader often feels as though a supervisor is assisting him or her with actual cases, while providing useful tools for translating theory into practical and realistic treatment interventions. I highly recommend this book for beginning therapists who are seeking concrete answers to their reality based questions and concerns about how best to serve the needs of their clients.