Principles of counseling and psychotherapy : learning the essential domains and nonlinear thinking of master practitioners /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mozdzierz, Gerald J.
Other Authors: Peluso, Paul R., Lisiecki, Joseph
Format: Printed Book
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy.
Counseling.
Nonlinear theories.
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: The Problem of the Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Learning from Experts-Those Who Demonstrate Their Effectiveness
  • How Do Master Clinicians Achieve Mastery?
  • Learning to Think Like a Therapist: The Characteristics of Expert Therapist Thinking and Why It Is Important
  • Linear versus Nonlinear Thinking
  • Nonlinear Thinking
  • Clinical Case Example: A Broken Heart and Obsessing
  • Am I a Nonlinear Thinker?
  • Exercising Your Nonlinear Thinking
  • Expertise and Learning How to Think Like a Practitioner
  • How We Will Do It: Development of Mastery and Deliberate Practice
  • So How Will We Do This?
  • The Purpose of This Book
  • The Current State of Psychotherapy
  • Therapy Is Effective in Helping People with Mental Disorders, Adjustment Problems, and Relational Difficulties in Life
  • Therapy Can Be Effective Quickly and Is a Cost-Effective Treatment
  • Despite These Potential Benefits, Therapy Is Ineffective and Underutilized
  • Contents note continued: The Painful Truth: Effective Therapy Is Not Being Provided on a Consistent Basis
  • Improving the Process of Learning How to Become an Effective Therapist: Proposed Solutions and Their Limitations
  • The Movement toward Manualization or Evidence-Based Psychological Practices
  • The Search for an Integrated Approach to Therapy
  • Research and the Convergence of Understanding: Learning and Understanding the Seven Domains of Competence
  • What Are Domains?
  • What Domains Are Not
  • Introducing the Seven Domains of Competence
  • A Developmental Model of Therapist Growth: Guiding the Reader through the Learning Process to Help Speed Understanding of the Seven Domains of Competence and Nonlinear Thinking
  • Stoltenberg's Developmental Model
  • Integrating Stoltenberg's Developmental Model with the Seven Domains
  • Conclusion
  • Self-versus-Other Focus
  • Anxiety
  • The Quest for Perfection
  • Insecurity
  • Underdeveloped Sense of Clinical judgment
  • Contents note continued: Where to Begin?
  • Introduction: The Mob Boss Is Your Client
  • Clinician Attitude and Disposition: Curiosity
  • Listening
  • How Do You Listen in a Linear Way?
  • Listening for Content or Information
  • Listening for Feelings
  • How to Listen in a Nonlinear Way
  • Congruence (i.e., Correspondence-or Lack of Correspondence-between What Is Said and What Is Meant)
  • Listening for Absence (i.e., What Is Not Said-by Silence, Avoidance, or Information Overload)
  • Listening for Presence (Nonverbal Behaviors That Add Meaning)
  • Listening for Inference (The Purpose behind "I Don't Want..." Statements)
  • Listening for Resistance: The Desire Not to Change-,
  • Our Nonlinear Brain: Mirror Neurons and Connecting with a Client
  • Possible Meanings Associated with Statements in Clinical Exercise: Beginning the Use of Nonlinear Thinking
  • Introduction
  • Linear Responding
  • Responding to Content or-Information
  • Responding to Feelings
  • Contents note continued: Advanced Linear responding
  • Nonlinear Responding
  • Nonlinear Responding to Incongruence (i.e., "I Hear-That There Is More Than One Side to This.")
  • Nonlinear Responding to Absence (i.e., "I See What You Are Not Showing Me.")
  • Nonlinear Responding to Presence (i.e., "I See What Your Body-Is Saying Even if You Don't.")
  • Nonlinear Responding to Inference (i.e., "I Hear What You Are Not Saying.")
  • Nonlinear Responding to Resistance (i.e., "I Understand That You Might Not Be Ready for This.")
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction: Every Story Must Have a Beginning, Middle, and an End
  • Assessing the Client: Symptoms, Diagnoses, Strengths, and (Untapped) Resources
  • Linear Methods of Assessment: Looking for Symptoms and Diagnoses
  • The Goal of the Biopsychosocial Interview
  • Linear Methods of Assessment: Looking for Strengths and Resources
  • Nonlinear Methods of Assessing for Strengths and Resources
  • Looking for Unused or Misused Power
  • Contents note continued: Connecting with Untapped Social Supports
  • Assessing a Client's Readiness for Change: The Stages of Change Model
  • Precontemplation
  • Contemplation
  • Preparation for Action
  • Action
  • Maintenance
  • Relapse
  • How to Identify a Client's Stage of Change
  • Moving through the Stages of Change
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Assessment: The Theme behind a Client's Narrative
  • Theme of Desperation: "I Have a Problem That I Need to Work On!"
  • Theme of Helplessness: The Symptom Is Out of Control ("I Can't Help Myself")
  • Theme of Hopelessness: "I Have a Chronic Problem"
  • Theme of Defensiveness: "Who or What Is the Problem? (Cause It's Not Me!)"
  • Theme of Exhaustion: Being Overwhelmed (Physically, Emotionally, and/or Psychologically)
  • Theme of Despair: The Experience of Loss
  • Theme of Fear and Confusion: Double Binds
  • Therapeutic Goals
  • Making Good Therapeutic Goals
  • Treatment Plans
  • What Happens When Goals Don't Align?
  • Contents note continued: Conclusion
  • Introduction: The King's Speech
  • Research Findings: The Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Factors that Contribute to the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Selected Findings of the First Task Force (2002)
  • Selected Findings of the Second Task Force (2011)
  • Demonstrably Effective Element of the Therapeutic Relationship: The Therapeutic Alliance
  • Positive Affective Bond
  • Therapeutic Tasks
  • Consensus on Goals
  • Research on the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Conclusions on the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Demonstrably Effective Element of the Therapeutic Relationship: Empathy
  • Empathic Rapport
  • Communicative Attunement
  • Person Empathy
  • Demonstrably Effective Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship: Collecting Client Feedback
  • Probably Effective Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship: Positive Regard
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Contents note continued: Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Congruence/Genuineness
  • Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Managing Transference and Countertransference
  • Countertransference
  • Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Therapeutic Ruptures and Nonlinear Thinking
  • Identifying Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Repairing Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Methods of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Reactance/Resistance
  • Reactance
  • Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Client Preference
  • Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Culture/Religion/Spirituality
  • Ethically Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Contents note continued: Boundary and Role Management I Boundaries
  • Ethics and Boundaries
  • Boundary and Role Management II Multiple Roles
  • Flexibility of Boundaries
  • Boundary and Role Management III Therapist Self-Disclosure
  • Harm from Disclosure
  • What Not to Do in a Therapeutic Relationship
  • Conclusion
  • Focus of Attention
  • Decreased Level of Anxiety
  • The Development of Understanding and Nonlinear Thinking
  • Introduction: The Shawshank Schema
  • What Are Schemas? Where Do They Come from?
  • Three General Characteristics of Schemas
  • A Historical Overview of Schemas in Therapy
  • Schemas Help Guide Our Responses to New Experiences
  • Personality Development and Core Schema Dynamics
  • View of Self
  • View of Self and Optimism
  • View of Self and the Family of Origin
  • View of Others
  • View of Others: Positive or Negative
  • View of Others and the Family of Origin
  • View of the World and View of Life
  • View of Life and the World, and Family of Origin
  • Contents note continued: Universal Characteristics of Schemas
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Schema Dynamics and Cognitive Distortions
  • Schema Dynamics, Cognitive Distortions, and Psychological Disorders
  • Schema Dynamics and the Development of Personality Disorders
  • Linear Thinking, Listening, and Responding to Core Client Schemas
  • Nonlinear Thinking, Listening, and Responding to Core Client Schemas
  • Rigid Schema Dynamics and Linear and Nonlinear Listening. Absolutes, Dichotomies, Extremes, Polarities, and Exclusionary Thinking
  • Elements of Formal Assessment in Understanding a Client's Schema Dynamics
  • Readiness for Change
  • Client Resources
  • Themes
  • Client Goals
  • Using the Therapeutic Relationship to Better Understand a Client's Schema Dynamics
  • Therapeutic Alliance
  • Therapeutic Ruptures and Client Schemas
  • Utilizing Assessment of Client Schema Dynamics
  • Using Family-of-Origin Dynamics to Understand Client Schema Dynamics
  • Contents note continued: Sibling Position and the Development of Schemas
  • Early Childhood Recollections
  • Collecting ECRs
  • Clinically Working with a Client's Schema Dynamics
  • Assimilation, Accommodation, and Green Eggs and Ham
  • Linear Methods of Intervening with Client Schema: Facilitating Assimilation
  • Assimilation and First-Order Change
  • Nonlinear Methods of Intervening with Client Schema: Facilitating Accommodation
  • Metaphor and Second-Order Change
  • Putting the Pieces of the Client's Story Together: The Formulation and Case Conceptualization
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction: Good Will Hunting and Emotions
  • But What Are Emotions?
  • Lingering Misperceptions of Emotions
  • Emotions Are, Weak, Feminine, and to Be Feared
  • Catharsis of Emotion as Sufficient for Change
  • Emotions Are to Be Avoided, Contained, and Neutralized in Treatment
  • Contents note continued: Understanding and Differentiating: Expressions of Affect, Internal Feelings, Emotional States and Moods, Primary Emotions, Secondary Emotions, and Background Emotions
  • Expressions of Affect
  • Internal Feelings
  • Emotional States
  • Primary Emotions
  • Secondary Emotions
  • Background Emotions or Mood
  • Emotions, Mood, and Affect
  • The Appraisal Process
  • Primary Appraisals and Assessment of Threats and Benefits
  • Secondary Appraisals and Responses to Threats
  • Problem-Focused versus Emotion-Focused Coping
  • The Relationship between Schema;, Appraisal, Emotions, and Behavior
  • The Link between Common Negative Emotions and Psychological Disorders in Counseling
  • The Continuum from Fear to Anxiety
  • The Continuum from Sadness to Depression
  • The Continuum from Anger to Chronic Impulsivity
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Using Other Domains in Dealing with Clients' Emotions
  • Listening and Responding
  • Contents note continued: The Therapeutic Relationship and Emotions
  • Emotion-Focused Therapy Using the Relationship between Emotions and Schema Dynamics
  • EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Coaching the Therapist's Approach to Working Successfully with Emotions
  • EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Focusing to Foster Recognition and Reflection of Emotions
  • EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Revelation, Reflecting, and Focusing
  • Using Mindfulness to Help Clients Understand and Manage Emotions Therapeutically
  • Definition of Mindfulness
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy-Basic Mindfulness and Getting Emotional Distance
  • Using Elements of Acceptance and Commitment therapy to Therapeutically Work with Emotions
  • Acceptance
  • Cognitive Diffusion
  • Contact with the Present Moment
  • Observing the Self as Context
  • Values
  • Committed Action
  • Using Elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to Therapeutically Work with Emotions
  • Contents note continued: Mindfulness
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction: Odysseus's Dilemma
  • Understanding Clinical Ambivalence
  • Definition
  • Types of Ambivalence
  • What Ambivalent Rats Can Tell Us about Human Behavior?
  • Linear and Nonlinear Views of Ambivalence
  • Listening for and Recognizing Ambivalence
  • Listening for Congruence
  • Listening for Absence
  • Listening for Inference
  • Listening for Presence
  • Listening for Resistance
  • Stages of Change and Ambivalence
  • What about the Therapeutic Relationship?
  • Schema Dynamics and Ambivalence
  • Emotions and Emotional Reactions
  • Behavioral Manifestations of Ambivalence
  • Flight into Illness and Flight into Health
  • Secondary Gain
  • Double Binds (Revisited)
  • Take Aways for Practitioners
  • Conclusion
  • Answer to Buridan's Bridge
  • Introduction: The Kobayashi Maru
  • Contents note continued: Linear Strategies and Interventions to Manage and Resolve Client Ambivalence
  • Resolving Ambivalence: Holding a Mirror up to a Client
  • Awareness, Ambivalence, and Effective Treatment
  • Pacing, Reactance, and Nonlinear Thinking
  • Nonlinear Approaches: Using Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy Methods to Help Manage and Resolve Ambivalence
  • The Miracle Question
  • Scaling Questions
  • Externalizing the Problem
  • Nonlinear Approaches: Using Motivational Interviewing to Help Manage and Resolve Ambivalence
  • OARS: Basic Motivational Interviewing Methods
  • Using Reflection and Responses beyond Reflection to Address Ambivalence
  • Rolling with the Resistance
  • Developing Discrepancies
  • Listening for and Eliciting Change Talk
  • Successful Resolution of Ambivalence
  • Take Aways for Practitioners
  • Conclusion
  • Nonlinear Thinking and the Domains of Competence Revisited
  • So What Is the Point to All This?
  • Contents note continued: The Disengagement/Engagement Hypothesis
  • Disengagement through Linear and Nonlinear Understanding
  • Disengagement Facilitated through the Therapeutic Relationship and Therapeutic Alliance
  • Disengagement through Externalization of the Symptom
  • Disengagement through Focusing Outward versus Focusing Inward
  • Engagement, Nonlinear Thinking, and Second-Order Change: Effective Means and Effective Ends
  • Engagement
  • Definition of Engagement
  • Encouraging Engagement through Specific Therapeutic Goals
  • Making Progress Not Seeking Perfection
  • Engagement through Affirmation and Reaffirmation of Assets and Resources
  • Engagement through Mindfulness/Self-Encouragement/Self-Soothing
  • The Final Secret: Deliberate Practice and Back to the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

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