Therapeutic Relationship

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1a. Explain your understanding of a "therapeutic relationship" with a client.

A therapeutic relationship with a client is a well planned and goal oriented connection between the clinician and the client in order to meet the therapeutic needs.

The clinician would develop and maintain mutually beneficial association with the client and his family. He always believes the client as a person of goodness, dignity and strength.

1b. what are the benefits of a therapeutic relationship?

Encourages Positive Interaction

Encouraging a patient to express himself allows you to get more information of the client's emotional tendencies and helps determine the most beneficial treatment approach. By exemplifying empathy, respect and a nonjudgmental attitude, you promote the positive side of self-expression and encourage a mutually trusting relationship.

Supports Personal Accountability

By teaching and providing the patient with the tools he needs to acknowledge the challenges he's facing and improve life situations, you empower a client to become more aware of his own behavior and self-correct it.

Promotes Openness

When the lines of communication are open, patients are more likely ask for help and more prone to be open about persisting symptoms or difficulties they may be experiencing. A client's honest summation of how the therapy is helping or impairing her allows you an opportunity to address problematic issues immediately and reevaluate treatment options.

1c. Explain in your own words how you would achieve this relationship.

Unconditional Acceptance and Non judgmental – Whatever your client and his representatives say, should be accepted unconditionally as all the aye important facts to diagnose and give the appropriate treatment. Secondly, you should not be critical and negative of his ideas and opinions and your attitude should be non-judgmental.

Empathy – This is about as to how you build up the relationship with your client that he knows his feelings can be shared with and confident of your input for his recovery.

Attending & Listening - when the client feels the there is some one here to listen to; he would like to share his feelings and thoughts which creates a strong relationship.

Open- You have to be an open minded and prepare to share everything in relation to the matter you are dealing with.

Professionalism – a professional approach to the matter points out the client of your subject knowledge, education and experience and that leads the client to admire of your ideas

Genuine - Being genuine to the matter and the client would always develop the strong relationship.

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