List Books » Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques: 51 Therapists Share Their Most Creative Strategies
Authors: * Rosenthal, Rosenthal Rosenthal, H. G. Rosenthal
ISBN-13: 9781560326670, ISBN-10: 1560326670
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
In this exciting book, some of the finest therapists in the world reveal their favorite techniques. Albert Ellis, the father of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, explains how he uses a tape recorder to help clients vigorously dispute irrational thinking. Arnold Lazarus, the creator of Multimodal Therapy, shows how he implements his innovative Time Tripping Technique for rapidly dispelling emotional distress. Imagine learning from William Glasser, the founder of Reality Therapy, how to integrate Choice Theory to become a more effective therapist. Noted psychotherapy expert Raymond Corsini, uses his highly creative turning the tables on the client to make clients think like a counselor. Allen E. Ivey, pioneer in the area of microcounseling attending skills, makes sessions more productive by using his community genogram. Cognitive therapy specialist Judy Beck uses her Core Belief Worksheet to eliminate cognitive distortions. Editor/Contributor and Encyclopedia of Counseling author Howard Rosenthal uses olfactory post hypnotic suggestions to eliminate undesirable habits orward off panic attacks. And there are more than forty other creative strategies that can be used to improve counseling and therapy sessions right now!
Acknowledgments | ||
Alphabetical List of Techniques | ||
Pt. I | Serendipitous Suggestion: An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Psychotherapeutic Techniques | 1 |
Pt. II | The Dark Side of Techniques: Beware of the Milton H. Erickson Clone | 17 |
Pt. III | Techniques | 25 |
Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups and Individuals | 25 | |
Resolving Grief | 31 | |
Vocational Fantasy: An Empowering Technique | 34 | |
Changing Core Beliefs: Use of the Core Belief Worksheet | 37 | |
From Subtraction to Addition | 40 | |
Psychodynamic Uncovering Technique (PUT) | 42 | |
Humility, Augmented by the Deep Breath Technique | 44 | |
Hypnotically Enhanced Interactive Cognitive Rehearsal | 47 | |
Lifeline | 51 | |
Turning the Tables on the Client: Making the Client the Counselor | 54 | |
The Use of Symbols and Rituals in Psychotherapy | 58 | |
The SAEB System (Symptoms, Automatic Thoughts, Emotions, and Behavior) in the Treatment and Conceptualization of Panic Attacks | 61 | |
Vigorous Disputing of Irrational Beliefs in Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | 76 | |
Art Therapy | 78 | |
Voice Therapy | 82 | |
Working from Client Experiential Vignettes | 86 | |
Reality Therapy and Choice Theory | 89 | |
Using Stories in Therapy with Children and Families | 95 | |
Memory Work with Children | 98 | |
Creating Vision, Mission, and Values for Couples in Counseling | 100 | |
Assertion Strategies | 102 | |
Dereflection for Depression | 105 | |
The Last Five Minutes Technique | 107 | |
Community Genogram: Identifying Strengths | 109 | |
Relationship-Centered Counseling: An Integrative Humanistic Approach for Diverse Problems | 112 | |
Creative Collection of Therapeutic Adventures: Feelings, Fears, and Worries | 115 | |
The SET Communication System Strategy | 122 | |
Time Tripping | 124 | |
The Four-Step Experiential Session for Deep-Seated Personality Change | 127 | |
Memory Collage | 131 | |
Therapeutic Assessment | 133 | |
Creating Spa in Counseling | 135 | |
Support and Challenge: Use of Metaphor as a Higher Level Empathic Response | 139 | |
Social Therapy | 142 | |
Gaining Rapport and a Common Base of Understanding: Defining Rational Reality on Which to Build Through Counseling | 145 | |
Wally the Worrying Warthog | 148 | |
Dealing with Silence: The Turtle Analogy for Psychotherapists and Counselors | 151 | |
Olfactory Conditioning: The Sweet Aroma of Post-Hypnotics | 153 | |
Using Early Memories to Elicit Complementarity in Couples Counseling | 158 | |
Life-Play Fantasy Exercise | 164 | |
Well-Being Scale: An Assessment Tool for Caregivers | 167 | |
Posttraumatic Loss Debriefing | 171 | |
Draw Your Family Table/Family-O-Gram | 179 | |
The Technique of Nucleus Therapy | 182 | |
Bibliotherapy | 185 | |
The "Telephone" Technique | 189 | |
Body Scan | 191 | |
Rational-Emotive Imagery (REI) | 193 | |
Client Inner Self-evaluation: A Necessary Prelude to Change | 196 | |
Pt. IV | 15 Recommendations for Effectively Implementing Counseling and Therapy Techniques | 199 |
About the Editor | 201 |