The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in Psychotherapy
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Books › Psychology › Psychotherapy › General
ISBN: 0898621453 / Publisher: The Guilford Press, May 1993
Innovative clinicians share their perspectives and ideas about the therapy process, and show how their thinking translates into practice. Chapters are grouped into solution-focused, narrative, and reflexive approaches, with ample cross-fertilization. Discussion follows each chapter, wherein the author(s) answer questions posed by the editor. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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This volume offers clinicians an inside view of several new competency-based approaches that are transforming the field of psychotherapy. Unlike therapies that focus on deficits and dysfunction, this book describes approaches that build on client successes and strengths. Seen as a collaborative process in which therapist and client co-construct meaning in therapeutic conversation, the clinician acts as a facilitator who joins with the client to generate narratives of strength, hope, and optimism as alternatives to the dominant problem-saturated story. In-depth clinical examples demonstrate the application of these ideas. In addition, at the end of each chapter is an illuminating question-and-answer exchange between the editor and the chapter author, providing the reader with a uniquely personal view of the process of therapy.
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