Dropping the Rope

Dropping the Rope is a guidebook for personal exploration and skill development for clinicians looking to fully expand their work with difficult populations, and with any client where the “charge” of moment-to-moment interaction in session is challenging to tolerate, let alone use as a tool for change. With well-organized chapters, thoughtfully designed exercises, self-assessments, and skill development activities, Dropping the Rope helps clinicians learn to understand their own role in therapeutic interactions, as well as how to best manage reactions and proactively respond to “difficult” client behavior in a way that improves the prospects for successful treatment.  This workbook provides a valuable starting point for clinicians interested in the longer journey of professional development in the

area of therapeutic relationship management. Few resources are available providing the same scope of self-training material in one engaging, accessible format.