Therapeutic Relationship

• emphatic competence - the therapist's emotional ability to accurately perceive and respond to clients and their experience in order to fine-tune the therapy process
• collaborative goal setting - leads to shorter, inpatient stays, better goal attainment, and increased client satisfaction
• client-centered occupational therapy - philosophy of service committed to respect for and partnership with people receiving services
• PHASES

  1. develop rapport
  2. establish trust
  3. develop a collaborative partnership
  4. sustain a relationship
  5. relationship endures
• Therapeutic relationship and the intervention process are dynamic, intertwined, and interdependent as they influence each other
• interview - first step in conducting a client-centered evaluation and developing an occupational profile
• interview - shared verbal experience, jointly constructed by the interviewer and the interviewee, organized around the asking and answering of questions
• skills of effective interviewing

  1. preparing
  2. questioning (narrative and structured questions)
  3. responding (content responses and affective responses)
  4. attending and observing
  5. effective listening
  6. structuring the interview