The Art of the First Session: Making Psychotherapy Count from the Start

by Robert Taibbi

The average client today only comes to therapy five to eight times, and many only come once, so it is increasingly important, therefore, for therapists to achieve first-session success. Therapeutic skills and sales and marketing savvy are equally important to this task. In the first sixty minutes, clinicians must build trust, communicate what they have to offer, and ensure that the client feels different when they walk out than they did walking in.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393708438
• ISBN13: 9780393708431
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"