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Originally Posted by Skies
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The first requirement is therefore to adopt an approach which will retain patients in therapy long enough for the therapist and patient to form a shared understanding of what is happening and to find a way of working together. This way must be found to be beneficial for the patient and sufficiently tolerable for the therapist so that the therapist does not avoid it.
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This is a goal that may very well have worked for me.
Two key points that were missing in my last therapy:
1. The therapist and patient form a shared understanding of what is happening and find a way of working together.
2. This way must be found to be beneficial for the patient and
sufficiently tolerable for the therapist so that the therapist does not avoid it.
I had a long history of therapy to begin with when I started with my last T. So I could have understood it if she had proposed those goals from the beginning. But for people just starting therapy, when the therapist suspects a complex client, it could still be helpful for the therapist alone to have that goal in mind as a possibility, and to discuss it as therapy progresses with the client so that they improve their ability to be on the same page and "form a shared understanding".