Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Stabilization and Psychotherapy

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Author(s): Richard Lakeman (Southern Cross University, Australia)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 10
Source title: Stabilization Approaches That Empower Clients Through Mental Health Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Isabel Logan (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)and Cheryl A. Green (Yale New Haven Health-Bridgeport Hospital, USA & Abilene Christian University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8228-2.ch001

Keywords: Medical Information Science Reference / Mental Health & Behavioral Studies / Psychiatry and Mental Health / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter builds on others and proposes that stabilization ought to be the first imperative in psychotherapy and a primary focus of all encounters with mental health services. Readers are invited to reframe treatment resistance, treatment failure, and ‘dropouts' from therapeutic programmes as largely a failure achieve stabilization prior to or in the early phases of psychotherapy. This entails the provision of basic human needs, safety, and facilitating a sense of safety within the psychotherapeutic relationship.

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