How does the therapist decide how and how much to reveal herself in therapy?
Moderator
Dr. Sharon Ziv Beiman
What's in the workshop?
Therapists are exposed on many levels to patients and at the same time also choose to actively disclose information about their feelings and experiences within therapy and their lives outside of therapy. What guides us in making decisions about what to disclose and with whom? Are these decisions calculated or spontaneous? Are there different working styles of therapists or do they change from dyad to dyad and during the process? When should self-disclosure be avoided? What is the rationale for using it? How do we examine with patients their reactions to disclosure?
Teaching methods: The workshop will present diverse voices within the relational approach and the world of therapy in general, as well as research knowledge regarding these issues, while illustrating them through clinical examples and discussing the dilemmas of the workshop participants regarding their own self-disclosure in therapy.
Workshop objectives:
Introduction to a variety of voices in the world of psychotherapy in general, and the relational approach in particular, regarding therapists' self-disclosure.
A review of research knowledge regarding caregivers' self-disclosure.
Mapping the dilemmas, considerations, and options surrounding caregivers' self-disclosure.
Shared thinking about dilemmas surrounding self-disclosure based on theoretical and research knowledge.
About the moderator
Clinical psychologist, instructor, faculty member at the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. Director of the 'Nafshim' Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching, which engages in training and research in integration-based psychotherapy. Teaches at 'Ogen', a three-year program for integration-based psychotherapy. Founding partner of 'Sich Group - Institute for Relational Psychotherapy'. Former chair of the Israeli Forum for Psychoanalysis and Relational Psychotherapy. Researches the interrelationships between therapeutic interventions and indicators of process and outcome of treatment, active in the Israeli Group for Research in Psychotherapy and the International Association for the Study of the Integration of Psychotherapy. Treats adults and couples.