The Dilemmas of Brief PsychotherapyHealth care reform has made short-term psychotherapy an increasingly popular treatment option. This informative volume explores the potential of brief psychotherapy through four paradigmatic modes of the individual's relationship to others: subservience, indecisiveness, entitlement, and fundamental fault - the latter of which deals with long-term, family-related emotional problems. The Dilemmas of Brief Psychotherapy uses cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and systems approaches to show clinical psychology practitioners and students how to decipher and respond to the narratives of patients' lives. James Gustafson's highly readable treatise arms the modern practitioner with solutions to the myriad of problematic situations encountered throughout the course of a brief psychotherapy. |
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... parents almost always present this kind of problem : The kid appeals to be free , but looks like he will misuse the opportunity ; the parents appeal for control , but look like they will suppress the kid altogether . The most reliable ...
... parents almost always present this kind of problem : The kid appeals to be free , but looks like he will misuse the opportunity ; the parents appeal for control , but look like they will suppress the kid altogether . The most reliable ...
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... parents , by various lapses of responsibility like shoplifting , truancy , drinking , or what have you . The parents , in turn , want control reestablished , but alarm the teenager by seeming to proscribe everything , including therapy ...
... parents , by various lapses of responsibility like shoplifting , truancy , drinking , or what have you . The parents , in turn , want control reestablished , but alarm the teenager by seeming to proscribe everything , including therapy ...
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... parents wrong . Similarly , the doctor turns to the parents as follows : Your teenager believes that you cannot relinquish control at all , which will ruin his life . Would you like to prove him wrong ? You would ? What then would be ...
... parents wrong . Similarly , the doctor turns to the parents as follows : Your teenager believes that you cannot relinquish control at all , which will ruin his life . Would you like to prove him wrong ? You would ? What then would be ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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