Personal therapeutic approach in Gestalt therapists working with clients suffering from medically unexplained psychosomatic symptoms

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00119461" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00119461 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/535" target="_blank" >https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/535</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.535" target="_blank" >10.4081/ripppo.2021.535</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Personal therapeutic approach in Gestalt therapists working with clients suffering from medically unexplained psychosomatic symptoms

Original language description

Treatment specificity and adherence to treatment manuals represent essential components of the medical model in psychotherapy. The model assumes that psychotherapists who work with the same type of clients and who identify with the same theoretical approach work very similarly. This study illustrates the shortcomings of that assumption and explores how therapists’ individuality forms and shapes their unique approaches that resonate with their own personalities, inclinations, and worldviews. Semi-structured interviews with eight Gestalt therapists working with clients who experienced medically unexplained physical symptoms were analysed using the grounded theory method. Considerable differences were found among the therapists within four domains of the personal therapeutic approach, namely Case Conceptualization, Therapeutic Task, Therapist’s Position, and Alternative Strategy. However, regardless of the differences, all the therapists endeavoured, either implicitly or explicitly, to convey to the clients what they considered to be healthy functioning. There is considerable diversity in the way therapists work even when they subscribe to the same psychotherapeutic approach and work with the same type of clients. The exploration of psychotherapists’ usual strategies, as well as the alternative strategies they use when their usual strategies do not work, appears helpful for capturing their personal therapeutic approaches.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-08512S" target="_blank" >GA18-08512S: Effectiveness of psychotherapy in patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms: A multi-site naturalistic study</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research in Psychotherapy

ISSN

2239-8031

e-ISSN

2239-8031

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

295-305

UT code for WoS article

000734175900006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122569406