A Therapist's Guide to Writing in Psychotherapy

This guide practically aids mental health professionals in understanding and improving their therapeutic and academic writing, demonstrating how the written word is an invaluable tool to document, assess, and promote change with those in and outside the therapy room.

Michael D. Reiter, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of Florida and an AAMFT-approved supervisor. He has taught family therapy courses for more than 20 years and written 11 psychotherapy books and co-edited two books on therapy with couples.

1 Writing in Psychotherapy 2 Writing Progress Notes 3 Assessment Writing 4 Forms and Pragmatic Letters 5 Therapeutic Letters to Clients 6 Temporal Therapeutic Letters 7 Client-Written Letters 8 Client Writing Therapy 9 Documents and Counter-Documents 10 Writing in Psychotherapy via Technology 11 Writing for the Legal and Medical Contexts 12 Article and Grant Writing in Psychotherapy