Agenda Setting Executive Summary

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1. Agenda Setting and Adherence
Essentially, both practitioner and client should decide what to discuss and how to spend the time of the session (Cully and Teten, 2008). On the video session, the step setting agenda was completed at the start of the session representing the typical structure of CBT (Kinsella and Garland, 2008). Because the video simulates the client’ first session, the therapist gives an overview of what the session will include and suggests the matters to discuss giving a brief idea of the timings. Feedback from the client was sought and the client was also invited to add anything that she would like to discuss to the agenda, as proposed by Hughes, Herron, and Younge (2014). The content in the agenda setting defined was adequate …show more content…

In the first session it is important to establish a strong therapeutic alliance (Primary Psychiatry, 2006). Clients will obtain a beneficial treatment when they feel that the relationship with the therapist is collaborative, safe, and trusted (Cully and Teten, 2008). On the video it is possible to observe both, therapist and client, participating actively in the session, and this, according to Kinsella and Garland (2008), means that a collaborative style of treatment is being established. The video session shows the therapist and the client working together in a collaborative style. Collaboratively, both practitioner and client identified the problem, set the goals, and defined the expectations of the treatment (Simos, 2009). This improves the growth of a solid therapeutic relationship whereby the therapist and the client understand each other reciprocally (Dattilio and Hanna, 2012). Collaboration was present throughout all phases of the video session. It is possible to observe collaboration during the agenda setting, the formulation, the treatment plan, and throughout the homework assignment (Dobson and Dobson, …show more content…

In CBT, during the first contact with the client, it is important that the therapist displays: empathy, by showing respect for the client (Salkoviskis and Rachman, 1996), positive regard, and genuineness to determinate positive outcomes (Hofmann and Reinecke, 2010). In the video, it is possible to observe the therapist displaying empathy through showing professional concern and understanding for the client’s problem (Salkoviskis and Rachman, 1996). The therapist shows to be an active listener by being open to any message of the client and attempting to clarify and confirm the messages (Cully and Teten, 2008). On the video, the therapist demonstrates warmth and accuracy by using the same language as the client and by using the same adjectives that she used when describing her problem (Marshall and Turnbull, 1996). The therapist also reflected genuineness during the video, by giving attention to the client and keeping eye contact (Cully and Teten, 2008). All this will promote the client seeing the therapist as a self-confident and a skilful professional (Whitfield, Davidson, and Garland,

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