The Therapeutic Environment: Core Conditions for Facilitating Therapy (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Psychology bookshelves are filled with texts on different theories of how to do therapy and why one specific theory will work better than all the others. Yet the fact is research proves over and over again that all theories can work under the right conditions. This book takes a unique look at the specifics of those conditions that are facilitative to all forms of therapy, and how they are identified in different theories. The diverse experiences and viewpoints of an American humanistic therapist and a British psychodynamic therapist are brought together to explore the essential conditions needed for therapy to succeed. Extensive use of first-hand examples and thorough academic support combine to create vivid text, a sound theoretical base and practical therapeutic applications. The opening chapters draw on substantial research evidence which suggests that all theoretical approaches are equally effective in the hands of good therapists. It proposes that an important factor contributing to this effectiveness is the environment in which therapy is practised. Three central chapters give in-depth explorations of the unique ways in which the broad theoretical orientations of Psychodynamic, Existential-Humanistic, and Cognitive-Behavioural deal with the philosophy, labelling, function, perspective and implementation of a facilitative environment. A concluding chapter synthesizes information from these diverse orientations to identify core commonalities and critical differences between how therapists from different theoretical persuasions develop common understandings, maintain working client relationships and regulate their personal involvement in therapy.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hazler, Richard J.

Mental Health

Open University Press

In addition to being from different terrestrial hemispheres, Hazler (counselor education, Ohio U.) and counselor Barwick (Guildehall School of Music and Drama, London) work respectively in humanistic and psychodynamic schools of therapy. They use the tension between those poles to trade thoughts on the facilitative, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and existential-humanistic therapeutic environments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Barwick, Nick

Psychology & Counseling

Open Univ Pr

This provocative book examines the realities of clinical practice for which therapists are unprepared. Therapists are struggling to adapt both to their profession's changing landscape (such as the advent of managed care and the burgeoning of new theories and treatment approaches) and to demands on their professional and personal success. This book explores many issues that are rarely addressed in formal educational experiences for example, organizational politics, the negative "side effects" of being a therapist, keeping up with cutting-edge innovations, sustaining a private practice, and planning for the future and offers concrete suggestions for adapting to the world outside graduate school. Personal, easygoing writing style, the hallmark of Kottler's previous bestselling books, makes this an engaging and provocative read.

What You Never Learned In Graduate School: A Survival Guide for Therapists

Kottler, Jeffrey A.

W.W.Norton&Company

Helping in the Hallways: Advanced Strategies for Enhancing School Relationships (Professional Skills for Counsellors Series)

Shows school counsellors and other professionals how to widen their influence by spontaneous contact with teachers and students inside the school, but outside their office.  The author shows the reader how to make innovative use of their already-developed professional skills in order to increase their influence on the entire school without increasing their  heavy workload.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

Shows school counsellors and other professionals how to widen their influence by spontaneous contact with teachers and students inside the school, but outside their office. The author shows the reader how to make innovative use of their already-developed professional skills in order to increase their influence on the entire school without increasing their heavy workload.

Stress Busting Through Personal Empowerment

Excessive stress has become one of the world's leading health hazards, taking its toll on loved ones, friends and co-workers. Through books, magazines and newspaper articles, people are constantly exposed to the problem - but are not shown how to affect their own personal solution. Hard work, commitment and personalisation of problem areas are the keys to successful stress busting. Showing how to do the necessary work in a personalised format, this workbook provides varied exercises to help reach the goal of mastering stress. The authors feel that every individual can develop Personal Empowerment Skills - basic talents, abilities, and coping strategies that everyone has at their personal disposal - once they realise they are responsible and in control of their lives.

Holcomb, Thomas F.

Cheponis, George John

McPhillips Portner, Eileen

Routledge

Helping in the Hallways: Expanding Your Influence Potential

This reader-friendly resource helps optimize the potential of brief, informal interactions with students to improve students′ academic performance, increase learning opportunities, and foster a positive school culture.

This reader-friendly resource helps optimize the potential of brief, informal interactions with students to improve students' academic performance, increase learning opportunities, and foster a positive school culture.

The Emerging Professional Counselor: Student Dreams To Professional Realities

The Emerging Professional Counselor: Student Dreams To Professional Realities

Amer Counseling Assn

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The Therapeutic Environment: Core Conditions for Facilitating Therapy (Core Concepts in Therapy)

The Therapeutic Environment: Core Conditions for Facilitating Therapy (Core Concepts in Therapy)

What You Never Learned In Graduate School: A Survival Guide for Therapists

Helping in the Hallways: Advanced Strategies for Enhancing School Relationships (Professional Skills for Counsellors Series)

Helping in the Hallways: Advanced Strategies for Enhancing School Relationships (Professional Skills for Counsellors Series)

Stress Busting Through Personal Empowerment

Helping in the Hallways: Expanding Your Influence Potential

Helping in the Hallways: Expanding Your Influence Potential

The Emerging Professional Counselor: Student Dreams To Professional Realities

Stress Busting Through Personal Empowerment