Negotiating Therapeutic alliance enhancing outcomes and the recovery process / by JEREMY D SARAN.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychotherapy relationships that heal : implications for addictions-focused psychotherapists and counselors -- The therapeutic alliance -- Alliance ingredients in effective psychotherapy and counseling relationships -- Ancillary therapist-patient alliance dynamics in effective psychotherapy and counseling relationships -- Psychopathology, psychodynamics and alliance dynamics in integrative addictions-focused psychotherapy and counseling relationships -- Alliance dynamics and the process of effective addictions-focused integrative psychotherapy and counseling -- A review of the Norcross-Wampold clinical practice guidelines and conclusions pertaining to evidence-based psychotherapy relationships -- Clinical practice suggestions and recommendations for addictions-focused therapists, counselors and treatment providers -- Alliance universality : the heart and soul of change and recovery.

"This textbook examines a multiplicity of clinical issues associated with the role of the therapeutic alliance within the context of Integrative Addictions-Focused Psychotherapy and Counseling. These issues are associated with enhancing therapeutic outcomes and recoveries specific to patient populations manifesting the spectrum of substance abuse problems and addictive-brain disease. Each chapter in this text examines the various evidence-based ingredients in the alliance relationship that foster successful patient outcomes and recoveries. Effective and successful psychotherapy relationships develop and evolve within the basic context of human relationships. Experienced and skilled therapists and counselors generally agree that the therapeutic relationship involving alliance dynamics constitutes one of the most, or perhaps the most salient single variable, impacting virtually every facet of psychotherapy, counseling and the therapeutic process and outcome. The reader will appreciate the evidence-based science presented throughout every chapter in this book relating to therapeutic outcomes and patient recoveries. This book includes a wealth of therapeutic vignettes, case studies, clinical information, treatment strategies, modalities, and diagnostic issues that will enhance counselors' and therapists' skill set, resulting in improved therapeutic outcomes. It was written for all professional addictions-therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, residential and intensive outpatient care directors, as well as staff personnel involved in any form of addictions treatment"--