TY - BOOK AU - Bender,Suzanne AU - Messner,Edward TI - Becoming a therapist: what do I say, and why? SN - 1572309431 AV - RC480 .B359 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Guilford Press KW - Psychotherapy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index; 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 ER -