4THERAPEUTIC POSTURE
The Attachment-Based Therapeutic Alliance with Individuals, Couples, and Families
The theory should be simple enough for the average therapist to understand. When important issues are clearly understood, the therapist is not distracted by clients who are experts in complexity and obfuscation.
—Jay Haley (1980, p. 1)
Overview
In this chapter, we describe how therapists can enhance the therapeutic alliance with clients by specifically focusing on the ‘bond’ between the therapist and the client-system, based on the attachment pattern of each member of the client-system. We refer to this bond as therapeutic posture (TxP). We provide specific mapping tools to guide the development of TxP and also describe the phases of treatment ...
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