Succeeding with Difficult Clients: Applications of Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) - Brossura

Wessler, Richard L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 012744470X ISBN 13: 9780127444703

Casa editrice: Academic Press, 2001

Riassunto

I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing? " "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client? " When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas. The authors' experience with difficult clients - uncooperative, hostile, uncommitted to change - gave them a new perspective on working with therapeutic impasses. Papers describing Cognitive Appraisal Therapy have appeared in many books and journals, and now for the first time these ideas are compiled into a single volume. Heavily influenced by the psychotherapy integration movement and in a radical departure from conventional cognitive-behavior therapy, they see motivation in terms of affect and attachment rather than cognitive schemas, and resistance and setbacks as the result of emotional setpoints. Practitioners from all corners of the psychotherapy landscape will be able to integrate Cognitive Appraisal Therapy into their therapeutic approaches to help them work successfully and confidently with difficult clients as individuals, as couples and in groups. Key Features* Novel therapeutic strategies and formulations to use when all else is failing* Provocative conceptualizations of self, personality and psychopathology* A fresh approach to treating personality-related disorders* Numerous case illustrations, and excerpts from actual psychotherapy sessions and supervision sessions* Straightforward, common sense writing free of jargon and psychobabble

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"I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas.

Succeeding with Difficult Clients is intended to help psychotherapists and mental health professionals treat problem clients. Additionally, it explores the various forms that "difficult" can take, discussing the feelings and thoughts such clients evoke in the therapist and describing how therapists frequently manage and mismanage their feelings during therapy.

Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (CAT) is a departure from conventional cognitive therapies where client motivation is conceptualized in terms of affect and attachment rather than cognitive schemas. Through this dynamic approach, practitioners will be able to integrate CAT techniques into their treatment plans to help them work successfully and confidently with difficult clients as individuals, as couples and in groups. Throughout the book, applications of CAT are illustrated and examined.

Drawing from the authors' extensive experience, Succeeding with Difficult Clients is filled with case illustrations and therapeutic dialogs, presenting a powerful integrative approach to working with clients with personality disorders as well as methods for improving the therapist's understanding and managing of feelings that often impede effective therapy.
|"I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas.

Succeeding with Difficult Clients is intended to help psychotherapists and mental health professionals treat problem clients. Additionally, it explores the various forms that "difficult" can take, discussing the feelings and thoughts such clients evoke in the therapist and describing how therapists frequently manage and mismanage their feelings during therapy.

Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (CAT) is a departure from conventional cognitive therapies where client motivation is conceptualized in terms of affect and attachment rather than cognitive schemas. Through this dynamic approach, practitioners will be able to integrate CAT techniques into their treatment plans to help them work successfully and confidently with difficult clients as individuals, as couples and in groups. Throughout the book, applications of CAT are illustrated and examined.

Drawing from the authors' extensive experience, Succeeding with Difficult Clients is filled with case illustrations and therapeutic dialogs, presenting a powerful integrative approach to working with clients with personality disorders as well as methods for improving the therapist's understanding and managing of feelings that often impede effective therapy.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Academic Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 012744470X
• ISBN 13: 9780127444703
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile