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In some approaches, the therapist works to create specific kinds of power. A family therapist may unbalance the equilibrium and disrupt alliances among family members. A behavior therapist may create a hospital unit or halfway/transitional house in which desirable behaviors bring a rewarding response from the staff (perhaps in the form of tokens that can be exchanged for goods or privileges); the power of the therapist and staff is used to control, or at least influence, the client’s behavior.

Psychologist Laura Brown (1994) describes another domain of the therapist’s power:

The therapist also has the power to engage in certain defining behaviors that are real and concrete. She sets the fee; decides the time, place, and circumstances of the meeting; and determines what she will share about herself and not disclose. Even when she allows some leeway in negotiating these and similar points, this allowance proceeds from the implicit understanding that it is within the therapist’s power to give, and to take away, such compromises (p. 111).