Summary
Contents
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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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy
Chapter Summary
Solution-focused therapy is a practical approach to solving problems and attends to that which worked in the past. When the client is not able to ascertain what worked in the past, the therapist uses techniques such as the miracle question to draw the client's attention to potentials for a positive solution. The solution-focused therapist pays minimal attention to the theoretical origins of a problem and to using theory to design treatment. In the excerpts from an interview, Colleen demonstrates how solution-focused therapy helped her to deal with a practical problem with her sister. Although solution-focused therapy can be applied to a great range of problems, it is limited in working with problems that have an early onset such as in the ...
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