Respect-Focused Therapy

<p>Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research. <i>Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process</i> sets forth the formulation of respect-focused therapy (RFT) a new approach to psychotherapy that addresses the quality of the client-therapist relationship and therapeutic process. This volume treats respect as a combination of action attitude and open-mindedness urging therapists to recognize their own biases and beliefs and be willing to suspend them for the benefit of their clients. Using Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship as a conceptual model Slay-Westbrook provides core principles of respect and demonstrates how to incorporate these into the therapeutic relationship to best foster a healing environment. </p>