The Art of Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: What and Why to Say to the Client

This manual is primarily intended for students studying psychological counseling. The book includes over a hundred techniques and more than a thousand useful phrases and clichés that will help the counselor create a strong therapeutic alliance and increase the effectiveness of sessions. The authors discuss proven skills and techniques of psychotherapy that correspond to the most common counseling methods, such as CBT, brief and gestalt therapy, family and group sessions, as well as art therapy. In addition, recommendations for choosing therapeutic approaches, assignments for independent work, and transcripts of sessions are provided, which contain examples of the use of therapeutic clichés.