Advanced Techniques for Counseling and Psychotherapy
by Conte, Christian, Ph.D.Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2009-06-15
Publisher(s): Springer Pub Co
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Summary
This book presents advanced techniques, concepts, and models that have proven to be both practical and readily usable for counselors who work with individuals, couples, families, and children. Dr. Conte provides in-depth coverage of a wide array of therapies, including metaphor, creative, projective, and classic.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Techniques of Counseling and Psychotherapy | p. 1 |
| Mithridates | p. 2 |
| The Five Errors of Communication | p. 4 |
| The Analytic Self | p. 7 |
| Basic Therapy | p. 9 |
| The Rudimentary Skills | p. 9 |
| The Great Watermelon Slayer | p. 10 |
| Yield Theory | p. 13 |
| Attending | p. 16 |
| Active Listening | p. 18 |
| Reflection | p. 19 |
| Validating | p. 21 |
| Gathering Information | p. 22 |
| Questioning | p. 25 |
| Empathizing | p. 27 |
| Self-Disclosure | p. 29 |
| Focusing | p. 32 |
| Providing Feedback | p. 33 |
| Confrontation | p. 34 |
| Silence | p. 39 |
| Goal Setting | p. 41 |
| Modeling | p. 42 |
| Reframing | p. 44 |
| Presence and the Present | p. 45 |
| Termination | p. 46 |
| Everyday Use for the Stages of Change | p. 48 |
| Hierarchy of Needs | p. 55 |
| Dealing With Resistance | p. 57 |
| Summarizing | p. 58 |
| Metaphor Therapy | p. 63 |
| Metaphors, Analogs, and the Five Errors | p. 63 |
| Plato's Cave | p. 66 |
| The Tale of Two Monks | p. 71 |
| Master Fish | p. 73 |
| Snakes Are Snakes | p. 75 |
| Puramitra | p. 77 |
| King Midas | p. 79 |
| Edshu | p. 81 |
| The Room With a Thousand Demons | p. 84 |
| The King and the Crow | p. 85 |
| Ascalaphus | p. 88 |
| Amphitryon and Alcmena | p. 91 |
| Sisyphus | p. 92 |
| Gilgamesh | p. 94 |
| Tiresias | p. 96 |
| Be the Couch | p. 98 |
| Philemon and Baucis | p. 100 |
| The Giving Tree | p. 103 |
| Creative Therapy | p. 105 |
| Counseling With Impact | p. 105 |
| Live Video Game | p. 107 |
| The Continuum | p. 109 |
| Mimicking the Problem | p. 113 |
| Exacerbating the Problem | p. 115 |
| Puppet World | p. 116 |
| Scaling | p. 117 |
| How to Internally Motivate Anyone | p. 122 |
| The Essential Time Management Chart | p. 126 |
| The Push-Button Technique | p. 128 |
| Trouble in an Envelope | p. 131 |
| Jealousy as an Ugly Flower | p. 132 |
| Past, Present, Future | p. 134 |
| Want-Ad | p. 138 |
| The Screen | p. 139 |
| Free Pass | p. 141 |
| Role-Plays | p. 143 |
| The Use of Chairs | p. 145 |
| I Quit! | p. 149 |
| Projective Therapy | p. 153 |
| Practical Psychodynamics | p. 153 |
| Argument for the Unconscious | p. 154 |
| Parts of the Psyche | p. 156 |
| Defense Mechanisms | p. 158 |
| Introjections | p. 158 |
| Projections | p. 161 |
| Displacement | p. 167 |
| Regression | p. 167 |
| Denial | p. 168 |
| Reaction Formation | p. 169 |
| Confirmation Bias | p. 169 |
| Applying Psychodynamics | p. 171 |
| Persona | p. 171 |
| Ebullition | p. 172 |
| Enantiodromia | p. 173 |
| Moving Energy in the Psyche | p. 174 |
| Psychodynamic Circle | p. 177 |
| Classic Therapy | p. 179 |
| Perennial Approaches | p. 179 |
| The Empty Chair Technique | p. 180 |
| Clinical Example | p. 181 |
| Real Self/Ideal Self | p. 183 |
| Clinical Example | p. 183 |
| Spitting in the Client's Soup | p. 185 |
| Clinical Example | p. 185 |
| Transactional Analysis | p. 187 |
| Cognitive Therapies | p. 191 |
| Fallacies | p. 192 |
| ABC Model of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy | p. 195 |
| Clinical Example | p. 197 |
| The Miracle Question | p. 200 |
| Clinical Example 1 | p. 200 |
| Clinical Example 2 | p. 201 |
| Confusion Technique | p. 202 |
| Clinical Example | p. 202 |
| W.D.E.P. | p. 203 |
| Clinical Example | p. 205 |
| Dr. Conte's Four Cs of Parenting | p. 206 |
| Choices | p. 207 |
| Consequences | p. 207 |
| Consistency | p. 209 |
| Compassion | p. 211 |
| The Four Cs in Action | p. 212 |
| Suicide Prevention | p. 213 |
| The Distraction Technique | p. 219 |
| Clinical Example | p. 220 |
| Epilogue | p. 223 |
| References | p. 225 |
| Appendix: Bibliography of Influential Works and Highly Recommended Readings | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 233 |
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