Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner

332 Pages Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback November 2003 ISBN 978-1-57230-943-2 Cat. #0943 Price: $37.00 $31.45 order	Hardcover 2002 ISBN 978-1-57230-804-6 Cat. #0804 Price: $62.00 $52.70 order	E-book March 2011 ISBN 978-1-60623-754-0 EPUB format Price: $37.00 $31.45 order

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1. First Contact

2. The First Moments

3. Initiating an Alliance and Assessing Safety

4. Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Eliciting History

5. Collecting a Psychosocial History and Screening for Common Psychological Disorders

6. Formulating a Treatment Plan

II. Frame and Variations

7. The Frame

8. Setting the Fee and Billing

9. Telephone Calls: From Dependencies to Emergencies

10. No-Shows, Late Arrivals, and Late Departures

11. Confidentiality and Its Limits

III. Chemistry

12. Substance Abuse

13. Integrating Psychopharmacology with Psychotherapy

IV. Therapeutic Dilemmas

14. Management of Impasses

15. Empathic Lapses

16. Transference and Countertransference

17. Termination