Main description:

Outlines a method of teaching and learning counseling and psychotherapy that can be used in the global market

Highlights cultural dimension of therapy with an emphasis on cultural empathy, cultural assessment, cultural formulations, and culturally-sensitive interventions

Promotes learning and mastery of those competencies which beginning and experienced therapists find most challenging such as developing brief case conceptualization, finding and maintaining a treatment focus, increasing motivation to change, and resolving resistance, ambivalence, transference, and countertransference enactments

Contents:

Introduction: Developing Essential Clinical Competenciesand Deep Therapeutic Change 1. Making and Implementing Effective Clinical Decisions 2. Establishing an Effective Therapeutic Alliance 3 Assessing Readiness and Fostering Treatment Promoting Factors 4. Recognizing and Resolving Resistance and Ambivalence 5. Recognizing and Resolving Transferences and Countertransferences 6. Recognizing and Repairing Alliance Ruptures 7. Performing an Integrative Diagnostic Assessment 8. Developing an Accurate DSM Diagnosis 9. Developing a Highly Effective Case Conceptualization: Clinical Formulation 10. Developing an Integrative Case Conceptualization: Cultural Formulation 11. Developing an Integrative Case Conceptualization: Treatment Formulation 12. Drafting an Integrative Clinical Case Report 13. Establishing a Treatment Focus 14. Maintaining the Treatment Focus 15. Effecting Therapeutic Change 16. Planning and Implementing Culturally Sensitive Treatment 17. Recognizing and Resolving Treatment-Interfering Factors 18. Monitoring Progress and Modifying Treatment Accordingly 19. Evaluating Progress and Preparing Clients for Termination 20. Utilizing Supervision Effectively and Evaluating Competencies