At the Crux: The Encounter between Clinician and Client. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell B2

AT THE CRUX: THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN CLINICIAN AND CLIENT

Influences explored across the Matrix come to a head in the encounter between clinician and client. Take a step back and (in the words of one of this cell’s reviews) you will see that therapies may be the “trees”, but the “forest” is the client-therapist relationship.

Commentary on selected key research highlights the 1970s study which predated variation-quashing standardisation of treatments and therapists, then under three headings develops evidence-informed understanding of the client-clinician relationship, in which ‘wrong’ can sometimes be ‘right’ and vice versa:
- Aren’t effective relationships just a matter of being nice?
- ‘Don’t tell me what to do!’ Avoiding resistance-provoking mistakes may be more important than doing the ‘right’ things, but sometimes even the ‘wrong’ approach is right.
- Demonstrating empathy is seen as critical, yet occasionally even something so ‘right’ can be wrong.

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One of 25 cells in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix mapping seminal and key research and guidance on alcohol brief interventions and treatment.

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Sent by Drug and Alcohol Findings to alert you to site updates and recent UK-relevant evaluations and reviews of drug/alcohol interventions. Matrix funded by Alcohol Change UK. Findings is also supported by the Society for the Study of Addiction and advised by the National Addiction Centre.