The New Language of Change: Constructive Collaboration in Psychotherapy

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Steven Friedman
Guilford Press, Jul 4, 1997 - Psychology - 464 pages
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

A Journey from SelfPity
251

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Edited by Steven Friedman, PhD, Harvard Community Health Plan, Braintree, MA

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