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A Guide to Functional Analytic PsychotherapyTherapeutic Technique: The Five Rules

A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Therapeutic Technique: The Five Rules Chapter 4 Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter, and Jennifer Waltz Psychotherapy is effective and successful when.. .it is human involvement and struggle. It is the willingness of the therapist to extend himself or herself for the purpose of nurturing the patient’s growth—willingness to go out on a limb, to truly involve oneself at an emotional level in the relationship, to actually struggle with the patient and with oneself. In short, the essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psy- chotherapy is love. (Peck, 1978, p. 173) The five rules described in this chapter are intended to provide a jumpstart for the reader in using FAP. Used appropriately, they can bring about what Peck considers the essential ingredients of successful therapy—involvement, strug- gle, willingness to go out on a limb, and love. Rather than the rigid, stern quality associated with the common usage of the term ‘rule’, the rules proposed here are based on Skinner’s conception of verbal behavior (1957, p. 339), using the elaboration by Zettle and Hayes (1982). Within this context, these FAP rules are suggestions for therapist behavior that result in reinforcing effects for the therapist—more of a ‘try it, you’ll like it’ approach http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Guide to Functional Analytic PsychotherapyTherapeutic Technique: The Five Rules

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Chapter 4 Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter, and Jennifer Waltz Psychotherapy is effective and successful when.. .it is human involvement and struggle. It is the willingness of the therapist to extend himself or herself for the purpose of nurturing the patient’s growth—willingness to go out on a limb, to truly involve oneself at an emotional level in the relationship, to actually struggle with the patient and with oneself. In short, the essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psy- chotherapy is love. (Peck, 1978, p. 173) The five rules described in this chapter are intended to provide a jumpstart for the reader in using FAP. Used appropriately, they can bring about what Peck considers the essential ingredients of successful therapy—involvement, strug- gle, willingness to go out on a limb, and love. Rather than the rigid, stern quality associated with the common usage of the term ‘rule’, the rules proposed here are based on Skinner’s conception of verbal behavior (1957, p. 339), using the elaboration by Zettle and Hayes (1982). Within this context, these FAP rules are suggestions for therapist behavior that result in reinforcing effects for the therapist—more of a ‘try it, you’ll like it’ approach

Published: Oct 20, 2008

Keywords: Verbal Behavior; Discriminative Stimulus; Therapeutic Relationship; Target Behavior; Natural Reinforcement

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