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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... trying to do the work of the imagination (Yeats, as quoted in Tate, 1934/1999). No, it is the work of the imagination itself that is essential; that is, getting a picture of the patient at his worst and at his best, and of the ...
... trying to go somewhere and having difficulty getting there. This ought to be in the record. Often, I find that I gave just this, but the resident made no mention of it at all. It seems as if there is some dire process at work in the ...
... trying to be helpful, is that anxiety is not a gradual development. It erupts suddenly, and supposedly out of the blue. This is called a nonlinear response, in contrast to a linear response in which there is a gradual curve of increased ...
... trying harder. What else is this country about? In other words, the ideal of control calls incessantly for more will. When it flags in its results, like Avis it tries harder. This gets our patient through medical school, or any kind of ...
... trying to distinguish the essential from the inessential would terrify him— he might miss something. All he can do is meet increasing loads with increasing effort. If he were a resident in the Oakland County Hospital Emergency Room for ...
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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 | |