title: The use of awareness, courage, therapeutic love, and behavioral interpretation in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy.
abstract: Interventions from Functional Analytic Psychotherapy focus on what happens in-session between clients and therapists to create more intense and curative therapeutic relationships. The methods described--being aware of clients' clinically relevant behaviors, being courageous in evoking clinically relevant behaviors, reinforcing improvements with therapeutic love, and using behavioral interpretations to help clients generalize changes to daily life--point to compelling directions in personal growth and change for both clients and therapists.
authors.affiliation: Independent Practice.
authors.forename: Mavis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, San Jose State University.
authors.forename: Glenn M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Callaghan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kohlenberg
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology