8.3. Exercise: Practicing Relationship Dialogue with Alliance
Ruptures
Practicing relationship work is difficult in workshop settings, because the relationships involved are quite different from client-therapist relationships. Although role-playing is usually to artificial to work well for PE workshop training, we have found that it can be useful to have participants take turns enacting different kinds of client-presented relationship difficulty. This provides practice in a safe environment where learners can experiment with different ways of facing relational difficulties. Trainees can take turns role playing scenarios based on the outline of Varieties of Alliance Difficulty Marker .
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg
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