The platform will undergo maintenance on Sep 14 at about 7:45 AM EST and will be unavailable for approximately 2 hours.
1997
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6427.00052
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Engagement and the Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy

Abstract: aThis paper is about the therapeutic relationship in systemic therapy and, more specifically, about engagement as a process. Beginning with some practice examples, a critique is made of the way in which both the therapeutic relationship and engagement have been under-theorized in systemic therapy. Two different sets of ideas are used to develop some thinking about the process of engagement: the notion of the 'goodenough' engagement as the environment or frame of therapy is developed, and the systemic concept o… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
3
1
1

Citation Types

0
34
0
7

Year Published

2000
2000
2022
2022

Publication Types

Select...
8
1

Relationship

2
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 43 publications
(41 citation statements)
references
References 20 publications
0
34
0
7
Order By: Relevance
“…In this context, contributions of both object-relational psychodynamic approaches (e.g. Dare, 1998;Donovan, 2003;Flaskas, 1997;Gerson, 1996;Kaslow, 2001;Pocock, 2006) as well as the related attachment paradigm (Akister and Reibstein, 2004;Byng-Hall, 1997;Clulow, 2001;Kozlowska and Hanney, 2002) have been extensively discussed.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this context, contributions of both object-relational psychodynamic approaches (e.g. Dare, 1998;Donovan, 2003;Flaskas, 1997;Gerson, 1996;Kaslow, 2001;Pocock, 2006) as well as the related attachment paradigm (Akister and Reibstein, 2004;Byng-Hall, 1997;Clulow, 2001;Kozlowska and Hanney, 2002) have been extensively discussed.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Reflection in action is a process that can be defined, with nothing mysterious about it. Such a view of the therapeutic process brings into the picture the concept of reflexivity which has been called upon by several authors within the systemic field, such as John Burnham (2005), Carmel Flaskas (2005; see also Flaskas and Perlesz, 1996), and bears some resemblance to the concept of inner dialogue of the therapist developed by Peter Rober (2005).…”
Section: A Theory Of Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…39,56,93,95,104,106,115,116 This suggests that there are engagement and relationship issues in working with patients from minority ethnic groups. 117,118 Again, there is little research on whether patients should be matched with therapists from the same ethnic background, social class, religion, and so on. There is some evidence that perceived similarity with one's therapist results in greater satisfaction.…”
Section: Race Ethnicity and Culturementioning
confidence: 99%