Don't Lose Your Patients

Premature termination-patient dropout in Dr. Herbert s. Strean's dependably conversational idiom-is a blow to the therapist's self-esteem professional status and pocketbook. Traditionally responsibility for it has been imputed to the patient's resistance or lack or loss of motivation. In keeping with contemporary recognition that the therapeutic process is a reciprocally influential partnership however Dr. Strean teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. He brings forty years of professional practice to the challenge of recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened be it right at the outset during the honeymoon phase in the face of the first treatment crisis or later still.