Process Coding As Clinical Training: Recognizing in-Session Markers to Promote Better Client Outcomes

Improve psychotherapy outcomes in real time by developing your attunement through process coding.

Traditional model-based approaches to psychotherapy training often leave clinicians without the tools to recognize and respond to what truly matters in-session. This groundbreaking volume is a compendium of current best practices in process coding—a research-backed method for observing, categorizing, and analyzing therapy as it unfolds. By watching therapy videos and coding transcripts to track subtle verbal and nonverbal signals, therapists and clinicians in training can identify alliance ruptures, engagement shifts, and other critical markers that predict outcomes—before it's too late.

Leading experts Henny Westra, Catherine F. Eubanks, and Tali Z. Boritz bring together validated coding systems, practical demonstrations, and video-based examples to show how process-centered training enhances responsiveness and complements any therapeutic model. Designed to be used either alone or in tandem with select APA therapy videos, the book shows clinicians and trainees how to do the right thing at the right time by improving their flexibility, attunement, and client outcomes.