8. Client Contracts - Pt 2

Treatment Contracts and sessional contracts

Eric Berne the originator of Transactional Analysis (TA) was a firm advocate of contracting.

He saw contacting as a 'bi lateral' agreement towards a specific outcome.

In this episode Bob and Jacci explore.

Do we give ‘homework so the client can process and integrate parts of themselves in-between sessions?

Journaling – Is it a good thing? Bob kept a diary from the age of 21 to 33 before he entered therapy at 35, he says’ keeping a diary is such a cathartic expression.

Educative Therapy Enabling the client to take ownership, not only of knowledge they didn’t know but also part of their own history emotionally too. !!CAVIAT!! Check out the clients support mechanisms prior to suggesting learning outside the therapy room.

Disadvantages of psychological contracts. They can be task driven encouraging the adaptive part of the client. Focuses of awareness and interruptions to contact can be activated with contracting.

Client led contracting can also be used in some modalities of therapy.

Brief task driven contracts can be useful for some clients as can exploratory contracts. CBT is often short-term task driven specific and measurable.

Flexibility within the therapeutic process around contracting is important.

Both therapist and client need to know the direction the therapy is going in order to maintain the bi lateral contract

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