Linda N. Edelstein, PhD, is a supervisor and clinical psychologist with thirty years' experience. She has been teaching graduate students since 1987. For the last seven years, she has taught a popular graduate course entitled Adult Development at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to this appointment, she was on the faculty at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology for fifteen years, where students twice voted her Teacher of the Year. She maintains a practice in Evanston and Chicago.Charles A. Waehler, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Collaborative Program in Counseling Psychology at The University of Akron. He has taught both beginning and advanced practica, assessment courses, and classes in personality and psychopathology. Dr. Waehler is a Fellow in the Society for Personality Assessment. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Waehler has been a practicing psychologist seeing individual adolescents and adults. For the last fifteen years, he has been affiliated with Cornerstone Psychological Services in Medina, Ohio. His research interests include the counseling process and personality assessment.

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xvPART 1 Client Questions in a Broad ContextIntroduction to Part 1 1Why Do Clients’ Questions Cause Apprehension? 3What Do the Different Theories Advise? 5Remember, It’s Not About You 11Guidelines for Answering Questions 13Style and Language Considerations 17Further Thoughts 23PART 2 Client Questions and Responses by TopicIntroduction to Part 2 251 The Early Sessions 272 Experience 433 Therapeutic Process 544 Expectations About Change 705 Techniques 806 Professional Role 947 Money 1078 Confidentiality 1199 Boundaries 13110 Personal Questions 14811 Sexuality 16912 Religion and Spirituality 18513 Prejudice 20114 Stigma 20915 Physical Appearance 21716 Dreams 23317 Therapists’ Reactions 24518 Individual and Cultural Differences 25919 Involving Others 27320 Out of the Office 28521 Keeping in Touch 30422 Life Events 31423 Ending Therapy 324Concluding Thoughts 343References 347Index 351About the Authors 357

"What Do I Say? is a useful guide for beginning psychotherapists and, therefore, is appropriate for most graduate courses on psychotherapeutic process. The book is equally useful for any psychotherapy supervisor..." (Psychotherapy, 2012)