Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences
- ISBN-10
- 131779141X
- ISBN-13
- 9781317791416
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-03
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Thorana S Nelson, Terry S Trepper, Frank N Thomas
Description
You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists, psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how they’ve learned that often the clients know more than they do! As you will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the top-notch and most innovative theories in the world won’t help a client in distress. Tales from Family Therapy isn’t just about therapists learning a lesson or two from their clients. It’s about compassion, healing, being taken by surprise, thinking on your toes, and encouraging people to believe in their strengths--not just their weaknesses. These stories represent to the authors some of the most special, most rewarding, and most puzzling moments in all their years of therapy. They invite you to share in their recollections and discussions of: the power of speaking accepting, respecting, and working with the realities clients bring the importance of first impressions in counseling how personal narratives develop through relationship coloring outside the lines of the dominant culture helping clients determine when rocking the boat is needed listening to your clients and not just your theories developing the self-of-therapist In the therapy room anything can happen, and as Tales from Family Therapy shows, anything does. Graduate students, counselors, licensed therapists, family educators, and family sciences professionals, as well as lay readers, will find this insightful book a helpful forum where the struggles, doubts, and triumphs of psychotherapy are revealed to encourage and inspire those who participate in the therapeutic process.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy
By Janine RobertsThis book shows how stories can be a powerful tool for helping clients understand themselves and others in their families and communities.
-
Family Healing: Tales of Hope and Renewal from Family Therapy
By Michael P. Nichols, Salvador MinuchinThe family, the source of our greatest hope for happiness, sometimes turns out to be the source of our greatest disappointment. Now, in the culmination of his lifework, world-renowned family...
-
Teen Voices: Tales from Family Therapy
By Maurizio Andolfi, Anna MascellaniTeen Voices: Tales from Family Therapy addresses violent behavior, bullying, drug addiction, reactive depression, eating disorders, and suicidal attempts in adolescence, from a systemic developmental perspective.
-
Teen Voices: Tales from Family Therapy
By Maurizio Andolfi, Anns MascellaniTeen Voices: Tales from Family Therapy addresses violent behavior, bullying, drug addiction, reactive depression, eating disorders, and suicidal attempts in adolescence, from a systemic developmental perspective.
-
Psychotherapy Tales: The Making of a Family Therapist
By Aldo GurgoneIs psychotherapy science or is it art? This is a vexing question. Psychotherapy is not just something that the therapist does. Psychotherapy is a process between therapist and clients.
-
Families and Family Therapy
By Salvador MinuchinThe views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations.
-
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS: An Art Therapy Approach to Family Therapy
By Doris Banowsky ArringtonThis work reflects the author's three decades of clinical practice with children and their families, and adults and their families.
-
Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation
By Salvador Minuchin, Wai-Yung Lee, George M. SimonA master class in family therapy--now updated with an additional ten years' case experience Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice...
-
Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children
By Denise B. Lacher, Todd Nichols, Joanne C. MayThis book provides a thorough theoretical grounding, and detailed information on therapeutic techniques and how to assess progress.
-
If Problems Talked: Narrative Therapy in Action
By Jeffrey L. Zimmerman, Victoria C. DickersonIn this unique book, noted family therapists Jeffrey L. Zimmerman and Victoria C. Dickerson explore how clients' problems are defined by personal and cultural narratives, and ways the therapist can assist clients in co-constructing and ...