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. Table of Contents
Foreword, Kenneth J. Gergen
I. Paths to Solution
1. Making Numbers Talk: Language in Therapy, Berg and de Shazer
2. "Both/And" Solutions, Lipchik
3. Take Two People and Call Them in the Morning: Brief Solution-Oriented Therapy with Depression, O'Hanlon
4. After the Shift: Time-Effective Treatment in the Possibility Frame, Fanger
5. Enhancing Views of Competence, Durrant and Kowalski
6. Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents, Selekman
7. Toward a Mutual Understanding: Constructing Solutions with Families, Mittelmeier and Friedman
II. Narratives of Liberation
8. The Monsters in My Head, Langella
9. The Turtle with Wings, Freeman and Lobovits
10. A Narrative Approach to Families with Adolescents, Dickerson and Zimmerman
11. Escape from the Furies: A Journey from Self-Pity to Self-Love, Friedman
12. In Pursuit of a Better Life: A Mother's Triumph, Brecher and Friedman
III. Reflexive Conversations
13. See and Hear, and Be Seen and Heard, Andersen
14. On a Roller Coaster: A Collaborative Language Systems Approach to Therapy, Anderson
15. Tekka with Feathers: Talking about Talking (about Suicide), Hoffman-Hennessy and Davis
16. Helping Embattled Couples Shift from Reactive to Reflective Positions, Caesar
IV. The Postmodern Era: A Universe of Stories
17. Silenced Voices Heard: A Tale of Family Survival, Sawatzky and Parry
18. Without a Net: Preparations for Postmodern Living, Parry "Packed with valuable information...highly recommended for practitioners and students studying practice."
-Crisis Intervention "A manifes to of our times....Individual, couples, and family therapists can benefit, mightily, by reading sections one and two. Family therapy instructors can use the manifesto almost as a textbook. Theoreticians will find a great deal to excerpt from as they turn the manifesto into a constitution."
-American Journal of Psychotherapy from the publisher's website |
