208: Clinical Skills of Effective Therapists that Improve Client Outcomes: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Applications from a Christian Perspective
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Summary
This track workshop presentation will cover eight clinical skills of effective psychologists and licensed mental health professionals that improve client outcomes (Miller & Moyers, 2021; Tan, 2021): accurate empathy, acceptance, positive regard, genuineness, focus, hope, evocation, and offering information and advice. A brief update of psychotherapy relationships that work based on recent empirical evidence will also be provided (see Norcross & Lambert, 2019; Norcross & Wampold, 2019), as well as a Christian perspective on effective therapists that can be used with Christian clients (Tan, 2021; see also Tan, 2018, 2022).
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Identify and summarize eight empirically-based clinical skills of effective therapists that improve client outcomes: accurate empathy, acceptance, positive regard, genuineness, focus, hope, evocation, and offering information and advice
- Demonstrate an understanding of the latest update on psychotherapy relationships that work for psychologists and licensed mental health professionals
- Develop a Christian perspective on the eight empirically-based skills of effective psychologists and licensed mental health professionals that can be used with Christian clients
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