Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is the first book on counseling skills to look in detail at the practical interventions and tools used to establish the therapeutic relationship. Step-by-step, the text teaches the reader exactly how to use these skills with clients to address their concerns and achieve therapeutic change.
Integrative and pluralistic in approach, the text covers the key techniques from all the major therapeutic models, placing them in their historical and theoretical contexts. Techniques covered include empathic responding, experiential focusing, Gestalt, metaphors, task-directed imagery, ego state therapy, solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy and self-in-relationship therapy.
Key Features
- Presents each technique from the perspective of its underlying theory
- Gives practical instruction on how to deliver each intervention
- Provides extracts from counseling sessions to demonstrate the technique in action
This book is crucial reading for all trainees on counseling and psychotherapy courses or preparing to use counseling techniques in a range of other professional settings. It is also helpful for professionals who wish to acquire additional skills.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Chapter Summary
Narrative therapy is an action-oriented approach that helps people to resolve their problems by deconstructing old narratives and replacing them with new narratives that will be used to make decisions and take actions in the future. Although old narratives are similar to concepts such as self-image, critical parent, and superego, the term narrative is broader and more encompassing in that it is the product of familial, cultural, and societal influences. This chapter presents the meaning of narratives, how people organize their lives around dominant narratives that often are the source of their problems, and the methods therapists might use to help clients reconstruct preferred narratives. The case of Sonja illustrates how a client, with the help of a therapist, is able ...
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