The Responsive Psychotherapist

Jeanne C. Watson, PhD, C.Psych., is a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, OISE. University of Toronto, Canada. A major exponent of humanistic-experiential psychotherapy, she has contributed to the development of emotion-focused therapy. Dr. Watson has conducted psychotherapy outcome studies to examine the effectiveness of different approaches to psychotherapy and the active ingredients of change. She has coauthored and coedited multiple books, including Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety with Leslie Greenberg. Dr. Watson was President of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research in 2014-2015 and recognized as an APA Fellow in 2013. Hadas Wiseman, PhD, is a professor chair of the doctoral studies committee in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is also on faculty in the Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies. Her scholarly work and research focuses on the psychotherapy process, the therapeutic relationship, attachment in psychotherapy, personal and professional development of psychotherapists, and intergenerational trauma and interpersonal relationships in families of Holocaust survivors. She coedited Developing the Therapeutic Relationship with Orya Tishby. Dr. Wiseman is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring Responsiveness and Attunement in Psychotherapy
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman
Part I. The Case for Responsiveness
Chapter 1. Responsiveness in Psychotherapy Research: Problems and Ways Forward
William B. Stiles
Chapter 2. Responsiveness, the Relationship, and the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
Robert L. Hatcher
Chapter 3. Attachment Theory as a Framework for Responsiveness in Psychotherapy
Hadas Wiseman and Sharon Egozi
Chapter 4. Responsiveness to Ruptures and Repairs in Psychotherapy
Catherine F. Eubanks, Joey Sergi, and J. Christopher Muran
Part II. Responsiveness in Different Therapeutic Approaches
Chapter 5. Responsiveness in Psychodynamic Relational Psychotherapy
Orya Tishby
Chapter 6. Responsiveness in Control-Mastery Theory
George Silberschatz
Chapter 7. Context-Responsive Psychotherapy Integration Applied to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael J. Constantino, Brien J. Goodwin, Heather J. Muir, Alice E. Coyne, and James F. Boswell
Chapter 8. Responsiveness in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Jeanne C. Watson
Chapter 9. Responsiveness and Therapeutic Collaboration in Narrative Therapy
Eugénia Ribeiro, Miguel M. Gonçalves, and Dulce Pinto
Chapter 10. Therapist Responsiveness in Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Adults and Their Nonaccepting Parents
Gary M. Diamond, Rotem Boruchovitz-Zamir, and Ofir Nir-Gottlieb
Chapter 11. Therapist Responsiveness in Treatments for Personality Disorders
Ueli Kramer
Chapter 12. Enhancing Therapist Responsiveness in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Jamie D. Bedics and Holly J. McKinley
Chapter 13. Responsiveness in Integrative Therapies
James F. Boswell, Brittany R. King, Carly M. Schwartzman, Rachel H. Wasserman, and Michael J. Constantino
Part III. Integration and Conclusions
Chapter 14. Meeting the Challenge of Responsiveness: Synthesizing Perspectives
Jeanne C. Watson and Hadas Wiseman
Index
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