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A Clinical Science Approach to Training First Year Clinicians to Navigate Therapeutic Relationships

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In the rise of the clinical science movement within clinical psychology, the importance of the therapeutic relationship in training graduate students to do psychotherapy has been neglected compared with the… Click to show full abstract

In the rise of the clinical science movement within clinical psychology, the importance of the therapeutic relationship in training graduate students to do psychotherapy has been neglected compared with the emphasis on therapeutic techniques that target specific client symptoms. We argue that the reliable evidence for the importance of the therapeutic relationship for maintaining a therapeutic alliance and as a mechanism of change earns it a central place in training and supervision. We describe how we have used the principles of the clinical science perspective to develop a training model for graduate students emphasizing therapeutic relationships within the context of collaborative assessment and relational/interpersonal psychodynamic therapy. We use a case example to illustrate how our training model engages students in understanding and using the therapeutic relationship as a mechanism for change within treatments. We demonstrate how we have implemented this training model within the context of a clinical science program. Un enforque de ciencia clinica para entrenar a terapeutas para navegar las relaciones terapéuticas En el surgimiento del movimiento clínico dentro de la psicología clínica, los programas de posgrado comenzaron a descuidar el entrenamiento de la relación terapéutica y darle enfasis al aprendizaje de técnicas para apuntar síntomas especificos de los pacientes. Sostenemos que la evidencia fiable de la importancia de la relación terapéutica para mantener la relacion terapéutica como mecanismo de cambio, merece un lugar central en el entrenamiento y en supervisión. Describimos como hemos usado los principios de la ciencia clínica para crear un modelo de entrenamiento para estudiantes de posgrado resaltando la relación terapéutica en el contecto de evaluaciones colaborativas y terapia psicodinámica relational/interpersonal. Usamos un caso clínico como ejemplo para ilustrar como nuestro modelo de entrenamiento atrae a los estudiantes a entender y usar la relación terapéutica en el tratamiento como mecanismo para cambiar. Demostramos como hemos implementado este modelo de entrenamiento dentro del contexto de un programa científico clínico.

Keywords: clinical science; training; terap utica; para; como

Journal Title: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
Year Published: 2017

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