Bender, Suzanne. <br/><br/>
Becoming a therapist :  what do I say, and why? / 
Suzanne Bender, Edward Messner. 
 - Pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Guilford Press,  2004. 
 - xx, 332 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index. 
<br/><br/>First contact -- The first moments -- Initiating an alliance and assessing safety -- Enhancing the therapeutic alliance and eliciting history -- Collecting a psychosocial history and screening for common psychological disorders -- Formulating a treatment plan -- The frame -- Setting the fee and billing -- Telephone calls: from dependencies to emergencies -- No-shows, late arrivals, and late departures -- Confidentiality and its limits -- Substance abuse -- Integrating psychopharmacology with psychotherapy -- Management of impasses -- Empathic lapses -- Transference and countertransference -- Termination. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1572309431 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychotherapy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC480  / .B359 2004