This contribution discusses various possibilities to apply client-centered psychotherapy with a (female) patient suffering from depression, along the lines of the author’s own clinical experience and the extant literature.
Using Swildens’ schema for phases in psychotherapy, I provide an oversight of this patient’s therapeutic course, differentiating between primary and task oriented factors in the relation. Within the latter, I discuss various process oriented task as described by Elliot and Rice.
depression, short term client-centered psychotherapy, process oriented directives
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
