Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process

By Susanne Slay-Westbrook

Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients, yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research. Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process sets forth the formulation of respect-focused therapy (RFT), a new approach to psychotherapy that addresses the quality of the client-therapist relationship and therapeutic process. This volume treats respect as a combination of action, attitude and open-mindedness, urging therapists to recognize their own biases and beliefs and be willing to suspend them for the benefit of their clients. Using Martin Buber's "I-Thou" relationship as a conceptual model, Slay-Westbrook provides core principles of respect and demonstrates how to incorporate these into the therapeutic relationship to best foster a healing environment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138906905
• ISBN13: 9781138906907
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"