Therapist Performance Under Pressure

J. Christopher Muran, PhD, is Associate Dean and Full Professor at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, where he directs its clinical psychology doctoral program. Since 99 , he has directed the Psychotherapy Research Program at Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel), where he was also Chief Psychologist for 5 years he is on the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty. He is past-president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and past-editor of its journal. He has received several honors (including APA fellow status) and published extensively on change processes and the alliance.  Catherine F. Eubanks, PhD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. She also serves as Associate Director of the Mount Sinai‑Beth Israel Psychotherapy Research Program and is on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is past president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and has received several honors, including early career awards from APA/Division 29 and the Society for Psychotherapy Research. She is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Her research concentrates on alliance rupture repair.

Therapists need to learn the basic therapeutic skills, practice them until they become second nature, and know how to use the skills under pressure. This book can help us hone our teaching of clinical intuition by learning about emotion regulation and other strategies that help us become better therapists. - Clara E. Hill, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park Crises, toxic events, unsettling emotions, impasses, misalignments, unproductive processes, and negative exchanges are ubiquitous in all forms of therapy and with all types of clients. Such a daunting reality makes this book a necessity for therapists, irrespective of their level of experience and theoretical orientation. - Louis G. Castonguay, PhD, Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park Muran and Eubanks take their seminal work on ruptures and rupture repairs into new directions that go straight to the heart of the therapist amp rsquo s experience. - Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College of New York, New York Written by leaders in the field, this text has all you want to know about rupture repair and resolution. - Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Muran and Eubanks show how the all-too-common moments of struggle and confusion therapists face are seeded with the potential for clarity and resolution. - Zindel V. Segal, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

• Preface: Positioning the AuthorsIntroduction: Pressure in the Therapeutic RelationshipChapter . The Science of Performance Under PressureChapter 2. The Science of the Therapist Under PressureChapter 3. From Emotion to RuptureChapter 4. From Emotion to RepairChapter 5. A Way to Therapist TrainingChapter . A Way to Therapist Self-CareConclusion: In the Pressure CookerAppendix: The Rupture Resolution Rating SystemReferencesIndexAbout the Authors