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Person of the Therapist in Couple and Family Therapy
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Research on the effectiveness of therapy shows that the person of the therapist is a significant and consistent common factor for outcome, regardless of therapeutic approach. Although there fails to be a universal definition, the person of the therapist usually refers to the therapist’s beliefs, values, experiences, and sociocultural identity. It also includes the ways that the therapist can be emotionally triggered, as well as how therapists use themselves to self-disclose or relate to clients’ experiences. Although early family therapy theorists focused on resolving personal issues so that they would not contaminate the therapy process, contemporary theorists focus more on how the person of the therapist can be a barrier as well as a resource in clinical practice. Research on the person of the therapist is limited, but several studies were conducted over the...
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Sude, M.E. (2018). Person of the Therapist in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1058-1
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