The Responsive Psychotherapist

This edited volume on therapist responsiveness highlights vexing dilemmas faced by psychotherapy researchers who grapple with the dazzling complexity that is the relational enterprise between patient and therapist. A wide array of clinical phenomena illustrates how therapist responsiveness is at the core of what makes any psychotherapy work. -- Lisa Wallner Samstag, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Director of Psychotherapy Research, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY
“Responsiveness” has been a buzzword in recent years without a clear delineation of what it means. Written by the experts in the field, this book finally gives us a glimpse of what it means to be responsive to clients, which, of course, we all want to be. Clinicians will benefit from this excellent book by being able to learn about how and when to be responsive to clients; researchers will benefit from having clear guidelines about what responsiveness means; and trainees will benefit from having expert wisdom about how therapy truly is implemented. -- Clara E. Hill, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park
Responsiveness is arguably the most innovative and clinically valuable of contemporary clinical concepts. Watson and Wiseman’s new book is a great contribution to the emerging literature on this topic, offering experience-near ways of understanding how this concept can be understood and helpfully applied across multiple theoretical approaches. -- Barry A. Farber, PhD, Professor, Clinical Psychology Program, Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY