Establishing and Maintaining a Therapeutic Relationship with Lorraine

Assignment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1) How would you establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with Lorraine..................3
2) How would you promote mental health and recovery with Lorraine?...................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Therapeutic relationship is basically a relationship between a therapist and client who is
receiving the therapy. It is an important relationship which needs to be developed as it is the first
setting where an individual who is receiving the treatment shares beliefs, thoughts and emotions
in context of the issues (Burnham, 2018). All therapists are required to show genuineness and
empathy while delivering the service. It is a method in which client and therapist indulge with
each other and make changes in the life of client. In this study, methods of establishing and
maintaining therapeutic relationship is going to be discuss. Furthermore, measures for promoting
mental health will be cover.
MAIN BODY
1) How would you establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with Lorraine.
Therapeutic relationship is the relationship between client and the counsellor in therapy
sessions. There is a need to build an effective relationship with the client in order to draw out the
best outcomes of the therapy. It has an ability of transforming experience of the individual. In the
given case where Lorraine is suffering form mental disorder, there is a need to build a positive
working alliance with her in order to bring some positivity in her life. As she is facing large
number of problems mentally, a mandatory psychotherapy session is must that should be given
to her (Ersser, 2019). Crisis team which consist of individuals who support people who are going
through some serious mental illness due to self harm, psychosis and suicidal attempts. Thus,
being in such situations, Lorraine also need such assistance. However, for establishing a
therapeutic relationship with the patient, some of the essential steps are need to be consider
which are discussed here.
Develop rapport: In order to build a therapeutic relationship with the client, the
counsellor need to build some empathy so that Lorraine can expresses her feelings openly and
counsellor must put himself in the position of the client in order to bring out the best results.
Using Non verbal: For building a therapeutic relationship, the counsellor must use some
body language and must express that full support is there with the patient and try to motivate her.
Be genuine: The counsellor must be genuine with the Lorraine. Small talks must be there
which allows the therapist to be genuine during the whole conversation. It will help to establish a
healthy relationship with the client.