Authors: Maureen Walker (Editor), Wendy B, Rosen (Editor), Jean Baker Miller
ISBN-13: 9781593850326, ISBN-10: 1593850328
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Maureen Walker, PhD, a licensed psychologist, is the director of program development at the JBMTI and the associate director of MBA Support Services at Harvard Business School. She is a coeditor of The Complexity of Connection.
Wendy B. Rosen, PhD, a licensed clinical social worker, is on the faculty of the JBMTI and on the attending staff of McLean Hospital. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Smith College School for Social Work.
From faculty and associates of the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, this practice-oriented casebook shows how relational-cultural theory (RCT) translates into therapeutic action. Richly textured chapters-all written especially for this volume-explain key concepts of RCT and demonstrate their application with diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as in institutional settings. Emphasizing that relationship is the work of therapy, case narratives illuminate both the therapist and client factors that promote or interfere with movement toward connection. Highlighted are the ways in which cultural contexts profoundly influence relationships; how growthful connection inevitably includes conflict; and how experienced therapists work on a moment-by-moment basis to engage with and counteract personal and cultural forces of disconnection.
Pt. I | An introduction to relational-cultural theory and practice | 1 |
1 | How relationships heal | 3 |
2 | Relational learning in psychotherapy consultation and supervision | 22 |
Pt. II | Connection, disconnection, and resilience in the therapy dyad | 31 |
3 | Walking a piece of the way : race, power, and therapeutic movement | 35 |
4 | Making great memories : empathy, derailment, and growth | 53 |
5 | Caring, but fallible : a story of repairing disconnection | 66 |
6 | Reflections on life, loss, and resilience | 83 |
Pt. III | Applications to couple, family, and group therapy | 73 |
7 | Me, them, us : developing mutuality in a couple's therapy | 107 |
8 | Moving toward "we" : promise and peril | 128 |
9 | The five good things in cross-cultural therapy | 151 |
10 | Relational movement in group psychotherapy | 174 |
Pt. IV | Envisioning new models of effectiveness and change : relational practices in institutional settings | 193 |
11 | Prevention through connection : a collaborative response to women's substance abuse | 197 |
12 | Toward relational empowerment of women in prison | 216 |
13 | Relational experiences of delinquent girls : a case study | 233 |
Index | 253 |