Very Brief PsychotherapyRoutledge, 11. 1. 2013 - 228 strán (strany) As the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology are increasingly driven by the economics of the HMO or Mental Health Center, practitioners in any setting, whether it be private practice or university clinic, are now forced to develop more concrete procedures and models in order to practice more efficiently. This book presents a set of procedures for brief therapy that are based entirely on the four common dynamics of psychiatry. By following the model set forth in this book, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and mental health workers will be able to build an entire brief therapy program based upon the initial conditions for each patient. In Very Brief Psychotherapy, Dr. James Gustafson provides the reader with the tools and techniques to make a discernable difference in a patient's life in only a few moments. The majority of people seeking help from mental health professionals are not pathological, but are most often stuck in self-imposed cyclical patterns of behavior from which they cannot escape. It is the first step in any situation that leads to the iteration of the familiar circle, and it is in this single step that the clinician can effect decisive change. Given a window of only five or ten minutes, the practitioner armed with this approach can help a patient break out of the repeating pattern, move around the impasse, and take the first step onto a new trajectory. Very Brief Psychotherapy can help the practitioner make meaningful interventions in real world time, and in less than ideal circumstances, will radically change the reader's concepts of what can be accomplished in a day, in a clinical hour, or even in a single moment. |
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... Disorders—therapy. 3. Depressive Disorder—therapy. 4. Psychological Theory.] I. Title. RC480.55.G874 2005 616.89′14—dc22 2005001382 Contents Preface PART I Containment Chapter 1 Anxiety as a.
... disorder (OCD), which act as if they are hard-wired medical conditions, and respond only to strict medical regimens. In this sense, DSM-IV correctly distinguishes one illness from another, and builds up an evidence-based medicine to ...
... disorder, and it is a disorder in the sense that when it is running high it curtails functioning. Our diagnostic system (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, DSM-IV) is entirely a diagnosis of functioning, and our patients are surely ...
... disorder.” How. Strange. Do. Things. Get? Another implication of the nonlinear jump of anxiety is that what the patient is showing in the room may not be anything like the full terror. He may simply be in the flat phase of the curve, where ...
... disorders, like sleep apnea, with a physical basis, but these are the exceptions to the rule. Generally, our patients say after yet another horrid day, “My brain won't turn off.” It is true. A brain moving too fast cannot readily be ...
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The Compensations for Unbearable Anxiety and Depression | |
Schooling against False Claims | |
Walking Forward to Read the Exchanges in Work and Love | |
The Opposing Current to Pushing | |
The Opposing Current to Guilt | |
The Work Impasse | |
Background | |
Drawings and Letters | |
A Theoretical Note on the Scaffolding of This Book | |
References | |
Index | |