Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy

Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy empowers practitioners and students to better understand clients by attending to both verbal and nonverbal forms of expression. Readers will find tools for unlearning biases and for providing effective therapy with transcripts and dialogic tools. Chapters focus on how to practice clinical thinking, how to teach it, and how to reflect on what is being taught. Therapists, supervisors, and students alike will come away from this book with decision tree questions and prompts, as well as metacognitive questions for structuring consultations and producing desirable outcomes for the clinician and the patient.

Jon Frederickson, MSW, faculty of the New Washington School of Psychiatry, has written over fifty published papers, seven books, and numerous skill-building exercises designed for therapists.

1. Why We Teach Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy 2. What Is Clinical Thinking? 3. Learning Clinical Thinking by Unlearning Biases and Assumptions 4. Positive Disintegration: Why Learning Triggers Anxiety 5. Declarative Knowledge: The Facts and Concepts We Use for Clinical Thinking 6. Procedural Knowledge: Putting Theory into Practice 7. Conditional Knowledge: When and Why We Use Our Skills 8. Metacognitive Knowledge: What We Learn by Thinking About Our Clinical Thinking 9. Conclusion