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the Answer is simple and clear what the therapeutic relationship, I can't. Like and tell us in 2-3 sentences about the meaning of life.

But something about them know.

1. They are. There are always any treatment modality, the duration, regardless of the purpose, tasks,methods. In individualnoy, family, and group therapy. Often they continue even after the end of therapy.

2. They are real. And the psychologist and the client feel very real emotions and experiences. But to deal with them can different.

3. They are different. Are aimed at the greatest possible equality of therapist and client, there are prescriptive are mixed.

4. They are changing, evolving.

5. They are, in most cases, quite safe for all participants. Most often they will not find violence, humiliation, threats. Usually in these relationships it is possible to get more support, understanding, attention, than outside the therapeutic relationship. They gain the ability to know themselves, their true motives, desires. And even implement them.

6. They develop within certain limits. The scope of these is very different in different approaches and different therapists.

7. The focus in these relations, usually, is paid to the client, its life history, phenomena behavior.

8. They are mediated by money. It is psychotherapy allows the therapist and client meet each other and communicate. And, to balance the "take-give" relations were observed, the most commonly used money.

9. They are formed and developed between therapist and client, but they have invisible members. This intimates the client and the therapist, their experience, habitual patterns of behavior, expectations from each other.

10. It is desirable that one of the participants (the therapist) even slightly larger than the other (the client) knew and understood what a therapeutic relationship.

11. There are many myths about these relationships.

12. Quite often the participants are tempted to translate this relationship into a more intimate relationship, friendship, love.

13. If therapeutic relations are developing well, their top becomes (therapeutic) distance.

14. In these relationships there is an opportunity to be themselves, to experience sincerity, openness. Make honest and sincere feedback.

15. Often they are painful, at times, or a long time at first. To build these relationships is a challenge for all participants.

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