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The therapeutic relationship refers to the relationship between a healthcare professional and a client or patient. It is the means by which a therapist and a client hope to engage with each other and effect beneficial change in the client.
Axline identified eight core principles of CCPT: The therapeutic relationship must be engaging, inviting, and warm from the beginning. The child must be unconditionally accepted by the therapist. The therapeutic environment must be totally non-judgmental for the child to feel uninhibited and willing to express emotions, feelings, and behaviors.
Goldfried and Padawer listed five common strategies or principles in 1982: corrective experiences and new behaviors, feedback from the therapist to the client promoting new understanding in the client, expectation that psychotherapy will be helpful, establishment of the desired therapeutic relationship, and ongoing reality testing by the client ...
Attachment principles guide therapy in the following ways: forming the collaborative therapeutic relationship, shaping the overall goal for therapy to be that of "effective dependency" (following John Bowlby) upon one or two safe others, depathologizing emotion by normalizing separation distress responses, and shaping change processes. [65]
[Rogers] redefined the therapeutic relationship to be different from the Freudian authoritarian pairing." [10] Person-centered therapy is often described as a humanistic therapy, but its main principles appear to have been established before those of humanistic psychology. [11]
The therapeutic relationship is central to integrative therapy, where the therapist and client work as partners in the healing process. Integrative therapy emphasizes mutual respect, empathy, and understanding, believing that meaningful change is more likely to occur within a trusting and collaborative environment.
Behavioral therapy approaches relied on principles of operant conditioning, classical conditioning and social learning theory to bring about therapeutic change in observable symptoms. The approach became commonly used for phobias, as well as other disorders. [57] Some therapeutic approaches developed out of the European school of existential ...
Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) is a psychotherapeutic approach based on clinical behavior analysis (CBA) that focuses on the therapeutic relationship as a means to maximize client change. Specifically, FAP suggests that in-session contingent responding to client target behaviors leads to significant therapeutic improvements.