Like its predecessor, Constructive Therapies, Volume 1, this engaging book presents a range of creative, time-effective approaches for helping clients build on their competencies and develop their own solutions. In-depth interviews with Michael White, Steve de Shazer, Bill O'Hanlon, Donald Meichenbaum, and Kenneth Gergen are incorporated with other clinicially oriented chapters from well-known therapists. Topics covered include different styles of constructive therapy, the externalization and deconstruction of problems, narrative work with ADHD-diagnosed children, a solution-focused approach for dealing with cases of domestic violence, EMDR and the MRI interactional approach, actualizing the empty self in psychotherapy, emotional and spiritual healing, and more. Illustrative case examples are featured throughout. Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Some Stories Are Better Than Others, Hoyt
2. On Ethics and the Spiritualities of the Surface: A Conversation with Michael White, Hoyt and Combs
3. Solution Building and Language Games: A Conversation with Steve de Shazer, Hoyt
4. Welcome to PossibilityLand: A Conversation with Bill O'Hanlon, Hoyt
5. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective: A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum, Hoyt
6. Consulting the Problem about the Problematic Relationship: An Exercise for Experiencing a Relationship with an Externalized Problem, Roth and Epston
7. From Deficit to Special Abilities: Working Narratively with Children Labeled "ADHD," Nylund and Corsiglia
8. A Solution-Focused Approach to Safety in Cases of Domestic Violence, Johnson and Goldman
9. When the Past Is Present: A Conversation about EMDR and the MRI Interactional Approach, Levin, Shapiro, and Weakland
10. The Relational Self: The Expanding of Love beyond Desire, Gilligan
11. No Self? No Problem! Actualizing Empty Self in Psychotherapy, Rosenbaum and Dyckman
12. Core Transformation: A Brief Therapy Approach to Emotional and Spiritual Healing, C. Andreas and T. Andreas
13. A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (with Footnotes for Baseball Fans), Hoyt
14. Three Styles of Constructive Therapy, Omer
15. Resource-Focused Therapy, Keeney and Ray
16. Postmodernism, the Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, and Beyond: A Conversation with Kenneth Gergen, Hoyt
Appendix: Songs for Constructive Therapists from the publisher's website |
