Therapists’ experiences with depressive clients

What is it about?

This study explores the experiential process of psychotherapists during a session with a currently depressive client. The resultant theory interconnects different therapists’ emotional responses to a depressive client within a coherent process model, which allows us to track the changes in therapists’ experiences, to name the relations between them and to connect them with the therapy’s in-session micro-processes. Fulltext download: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KSEmv9XN5IKHqQgeHznh/full

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Why is it important?

The presented model can support therapists in not blaming themselves for their negative reactions, and to instead value them as a source of clinically important information. We hope our findings can help therapists to cope with their negative feelings while conducting psychotherapy with depressive clients, to notice them mindfully, manage them self-compassionately, and use them to facilitate the therapeutic process.