Personalizing Psychotherapy: Assessing and Accommodating Patient Preferences

This book provides detailed guidance on assessing and accommodating patient preferences in psychotherapy, offering strategies for routinely measuring preferences and accommodating them into treatment. It explores four key strategies for accommodating preferences, training and supervision strategies, and clinical cases and patient-therapist dialogues to demonstrate how to evaluate and integrate preferences in a respectful and ethical manner.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 30 January 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association

This comprehensive book offers valuable guidance on assessing and accommodating patient preferences in psychotherapy. Drawing on empirical research and clinical expertise, Drs. John Norcross and Mick Cooper provide practical strategies for routinely assessing preferences as they evolve throughout therapy, focusing on strong likes and dislikes. They introduce multiple tools for measuring preferences in session, including the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP). The authors explore four key strategies for accommodating client preferences: adopting them into treatment, adapting the therapist's approach, exploring alternative preferences, and referring the patient to another practitioner if necessary. They also address the limitations of personalization and provide training and supervision strategies to avoid common errors. Clinical cases and patient-therapist dialogues demonstrate how to evaluate and integrate client preferences in a respectful, ethical, and professional manner, leading to enhanced alliances and improved outcomes.

Weight: 318g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433834554