Is Reflective Listening All That’s Needed? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell B4

IS REFLECTIVE LISTENING ALL THAT’S NEEDED?

Just two alcohol treatment studies have tested Carl Rogers’ classic account of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for effective therapy. Each stripped out motivational interviewing’s directive elements, leaving only ‘Rogerian’ empathic and reflective listening. Did the clients do just as well? If the iconoclastic Rogers who “doubted every authority including his own” had lived to find out, he might have felt his doubts only partly justified.

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Drawn from cell B4 of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, a workforce development resource mapping key research and guidance on alcohol brief interventions and treatment.

"Wow, outstanding work! This is one of the best, most clear and scholarly write ups I've seen of this complex topic."
Dr Lisa M. Najavits, Director of Treatment Innovations and adjunct professor, Massachusetts Medical School, USA, commenting on this cell

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