The postmodern context -- Doing narrative therapy in a destoried world -- Helping people become authors of their own stories -- The therapist and reflecting team as re-visionary editors -- Keeping the story re-vision alive, well, and in charge -- The re-vision of therapists' stories in training and supervision.
Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects. Counseling -- Religious aspects. Spirituality. Counseling -- Religious aspects. Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects.
The basic clinical theory of rational-emotive therapy / Albert Ellis -- Research data supporting the clinical and personality hypotheses of RET and other cognitive-behavior therapies / Albert Ellis -- A review of outcome studies on rational-emotive therapy / Raymond A. Di Giuseppe & Norman J. Miller -- Psychotherapy and the value of a human being / Albert Ellis -- Toward an egoless state of bei…
Psychodynamic psychotherapy -- Social aspects. Psychiatry, Transcultural. Psychoanalysis and culture. Minorities -- Mental health services. Psychotherapy. Cultural pluralism. Socioeconomic Factors.
Case for group therapy -- Theoretical framework for group psychotherapy -- Process -- Role and tasks of the leader -- Logistics and clinical issues -- Odds and ends -- Clinical issues -- Elements of psychodrama -- In retrospect.
Changing lenses and frames -- New maps: Change on the psychological level -- The group as learning laboratory -- Change on the interpersonal level -- Change on the level of beliefs and values -- The paradoxes of group therapy.
Feminist critique of schools of family therapy / Marianne Ault-Riche -- Training family therapists as feminists / Judith A. Libow -- Women, families, and larger systems / Evan Imber-Black -- Feminist examination of family systems models of violence against women in the family / Michele Bogard -- Minority women: a nodal position in the functioning of the social system / Elaine B. Pinderhughes --…
Why mediation therapy? -- The mediation therapy agreement: Shaping the process -- The beneficent overall structure of mediation therapy -- The rational structures -- Sensory and instructional structures -- Conflict negotiation skills: The cornerstone of mediation therapy -- Decision making -- Children's needs -- Selection of clients -- Appendix A: Distribution of structures in mediation therapy…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and indexes.
The family as hero : competence and courage in family therapy -- Competence in everyday life -- Competence in therapy -- Healthy intentions, unhealthy outcomes -- Creating a vision -- Courage -- Partnership -- Lessons from children. Abstract "This book responds to a long-standing need in the field of psychotherapy created by the gradual demise of the medical model. If we are not to define p…