Main description:

Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are common clinical experiences. If left unresolved, they often lead patients to drop out and to other poor outcomes.

As a therapist and patient work together, their alliance can come under strain, often because of disagreements in how to work together and toward what goals or due to a lack of trust and respect. These moments of stress, where the relationship has ruptured, are challenges but also opportunities for growth. Repairing these ruptures is an important change process that is relevant for all therapies.

This volume collects the work of 12 teams of scholars and clinicians, each expert in a different therapeutic context or theoretical approach, to describe clinical challenges that resonate with readers' own experiences. The authors use case studies to describe realistic, complex clinical examples of rupture and provide strategies and principles therapists can readily integrate into their work to help them navigate these challenges more successfully with their patients.

Contents:

Rupture and Repairs in Psychotherapy: Multiple Perspectives on Common Clinical Challenges
Editors: Catherine F. Eubanks, Lisa W. Samstag, & J. Christopher Muran
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Rupture in a wicked and wonderful world
J.Christopher Muran, Catherine F. Eubanks, & Lisa W. Samstag
1. Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Alliance Rupture and Repair: A Critical-Cultural-Relational Model of Rupture Resolution
Doris F. Chang, Maryam Omidi, & Jordan J. Dunn
2. Alliance ruptures and repairs in group psychotherapy
Giorgio A. Tasca & Cheri Marmarosh

3. A Close Look at the Complex Rupture/Repair Process in Family Therapy
Myrna L. Friedlander & ValentIn Escudero
4. Therapist-Adolescent Therapeutic Ruptures in Attachment-Based Family Therapy
Sophie Cassell & Guy Diamond
5. Alliance Ruptures and Repair in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Tara Impala, Annika Okamoto, & Nikolaos Kazantzis
6. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Tali Boritz, Sonya Varma,Anne Sonley, & Shelley F. McMain
7. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Robyn D. Walser & Manuela O'Connell
8. Relational Dialogue in Emotion Focused Therapy: Process Analysis and Comparison to the Alliance- Focused Training Model
James MacDonald, Robert Elliott, Ana Bela Couto
9. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Allan Abbass & Joel M. Town
10. Alliance Rupture and Repairs in Mentalization-Based Therapy
Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, & Patrick Luyten
11. Expanding the Rupture Resolution Paradigm: An Integrative Perspective
Sasha Rudenstine, Paul Wachtel,Talia Schulder, & Benjamin Bernstein
12. Don't be afraid to get messy: Points of convergence in rupture and repair
Catherine F. Eubanks, Lisa W. Samstag, & J. Christopher Muran