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description: Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research. Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process sets forth the formulation of respect-focused therapy (RFT) a new approach to psychotherapy that addresses the quality of the client-therapist relationship. This volume treats respect as a combination of action attitude and open-mindedness urging therapists to recognize their own biases and beliefs and be willing to suspend them for the benefit of their clients. Using Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship as a conceptual model Slay-Westbrook provides core principles of respect and demonstrates how to incorporate these into the therapeutic relationship to best foster a healing environment.
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title: Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process
publisher: Routledge