Crying may be a beneficial experience and reflect a patients’ involvement in the therapeutic work, as well as a potential indicator of the healing process. This study explored the relationships between patients’ crying experience in therapy, their perc…
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) affirmative counselor competence is important for counselors to work effectively with sexual minority clients, but the level of competence is unclear among counselors in China, given the more conservative sociocultural …
Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) is an integrative model of psychotherapy that brings together relational and experiential work, with the aim of not only alleviating suffering but also bringing about flourishing. The present study …
This article explores key aspects of the termination process in a 16-session treatment protocol of accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP). AEDP theory and its empirical support are described; interventions used throughout termination are…
The goal of this clinical practice review is to assess the current state of the theoretical and empirical literature on emotional crying (i.e., crying in response to an emotional stimulus), a topic that has received surprisingly limited attention of be…
Therapists engage in transfers—a specific type of termination—with clients who will be continuing treatment with new therapists after they depart. Consequently, new therapists begin treatments in the shadow of the loss of outgoing therapist. These tran…
