Navigating Ruptures, Repairs, and Termination Within the Therapeutic Process

Judy Z. Koenigsberg, PhD, a clinical psychologist, licensed in Illinois, who has practiced integrated psychology for 30 years. Dr. Koenigsberg holds graduate degrees in psychology and linguistics. After earning her PhD from Northwestern University, Dr. Koenigsberg was employed as a clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago. Later, she taught research methodology to graduate students in the social sciences at Loyola University, Chicago. Her recent books, Anxiety Disorders: Integrated Psychotherapy Approaches and Depressive Disorders: Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches, are published by Routledge/ Taylor & Francis. Judy’s articles in psychology and sociology have been published in peer reviewed journals, and her course, “Listening to the language of Your Patients: Integrating Psycholinguistic Concepts into Clinical Practice,” is designed for mental health practitioners.

Foreword by Stanley B. Messer, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, and Former Dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University

Part I. Ruptures and Repairs

1 What Are Therapeutic Relationship Ruptures?

2 Ruptures and Repairs in the Therapeutic Relationship: Diagnostic and Theoretical

Considerations

Part II. Termination

3 Definition, Types, and Duration of the Termination Process

4 Termination Across Different Diagnoses and Theories

Part III. A Transtheoretical Model

5 The Irt - CARE Transtheoretical, Psycholinguistic Model of Ruptures and Repairs

6 The Irt - CARE Transtheoretical, Psycholinguistic Model of Termination: The Termination or the Ending Process of Therapy