Psychotherapy Clients as Human Phenomena

Clinical algorithms as a tool for psychotherapy with Latino clients.

Clinical algorithms have the advantage of being able to integrate clinical, cultural, and environmental factors into a unified method of planning and implementing treatment. A model for practice is proposed that uses 3 algorithms as guides for conducting psychotherapy with Latino clients, the uses of which are illustrated in a single, ongoing case vignette. The algorithm format has the addition...

Liberating Psychotherapy: Liberation Psychology and Psychotherapy with LGBT Clients

Clients' and therapists' stories about psychotherapy.

This article provides an overview of the emerging field of research on clients' stories about their experiences in psychotherapy. The theory of narrative identity suggests that individuals construct stories about their lives in order to provide the self with a sense of purpose and unity. Psychotherapy stories serve both psychological functions. Focusing on the theme of agency as a vehicle for o...

Learning Psychotherapy: An Effectiveness Study of Clients and Therapists

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Clients' reasons for terminating psychotherapy: a quantitative and qualitative inquiry.

OBJECTIVE To study private-practice clients' perspective on reasons for psychotherapy termination and how these are related to demographic and treatment variables and to satisfaction with therapy. DESIGN Eighty-four persons who had been in extended private-practice psychotherapy which ended in the preceding three years participated in the study. Mean number of months in treatment was 27.70 (S...