The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in PsychotherapySteven Friedman This volume offers clinicians and students an inside view of several new competency-based approaches that are transforming the field of psychotherapy. Showing how to build on client strengths, the book details a collaborative process in which the therapist and client co-construct meaning in the therapeutic conversation. In-depth clinical examples and question-and-answer exchanges between the editor and the chapter authors provide the reader with a uniquely personal view of the process of therapy. This book will be of great interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, psychiatric nurses. |
Contents
Organization of the Book | 1 |
BothAnd Solutions | 25 |
TimeEffective Treatment in the | 85 |
Enhancing Views of Competence | 107 |
SolutionOriented Brief Therapy with | 138 |
Constructing | 158 |
The Monsters in My Head | 185 |
A Narrative Approach to Families with Adolescents | 226 |
A Mothers Triumph | 278 |
See and Hear and Be Seen and Heard | 303 |
A Collaborative Language | 323 |
Talking about Talking | 345 |
Helping Embattled Couples Shift from Reactive to | 374 |
A UNIVERSE | 403 |
Preparations for Postmodern Living | 428 |
Epilogue | 460 |
Other editions - View all
The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in Psychotherapy Steven Friedman Limited preview - 1997 |
The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in Psychotherapy Steven Friedman No preview available - 1993 |
The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in Psychotherapy Steven Friedman No preview available - 1993 |
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