Resource Activation: Using Clients' Own Strengths in Psychotherapy and Counseling - Softcover

Fluckiger, Christoph; Wusten, Gunther; Zinbarg, Richard E.; Wampold, Bruce E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889373787 ISBN 13: 9780889373785

Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Pub, 2010

Synopsis

This concise practice-oriented manual effectively shows how psychologists,
psychiatrists, social workers, supervisors, and counselors can quickly identify and put to therapeutic use an individual s own talents and resources.
Written in an easy and relaxed style using everyday language, this manual illustrates how to actively take a person s resources into consideration during therapy and counseling sessions, and how to integrate them into existing intervention concepts.
The first part illustrates approaches that can be used to focus attention on
assessment and dialog, and that shed light on a person s individual resources from various angles. These therapeutic approaches can be used in the framework of existing manuals and guidelines to focus on how to do things. The second part illustrates procedures offering a framework for further applying the different perspectives and provides sample worksheets for practical use.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Bruce E. Wampold (Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara) joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison faculty in 1991. He has been a faculty member and Director of Training in the counseling programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Utah, and the University of Oregon. Dr. Wampold's primary interest centers on understanding psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. He has published methodological and substantive articles on how the research on counseling and psychotherapy converges on a contextual model of psychotherapy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Review

Little things can make a big difference for instance, by making change possible where before no change could be seen. This practical little book looks very precisely at therapeutic micro-interventions and shows how to integrate a patient s strengths into clinical practice on a day-by-day basis to make change possible. Some ideas cross a threshold and then take off and get spread everywhere I hope this will happen to the ideas presented here. Practical and very efficacious! --Wolfgang Lutz, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Trier, Germany

Resource Activation heralds the emergence of a new vista for psychotherapists. It provides a detailed roadmap for systemically assessing and utilizing clients talents, skills, and resources to facilitate therapeutic change. It gives very specific therapeutic guidelines and also lays the foundation for research on this historically neglected area. This book and this work should be read and utilized by individual, couple, and family therapists to realistically enhance their clients sense of self and relationship efficacy. --William M. Pinsof, PhD, President, The Family Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Resource Activation heralds the emergence of a new vista for psychotherapists. It provides a detailed roadmap for systemically assessing and utilizing clients talents, skills, and resources to facilitate therapeutic change. It gives very specific therapeutic guidelines and also lays the foundation for research on this historically neglected area. This book and this work should be read and utilized by individual, couple, and family therapists to realistically enhance their clients sense of self and relationship efficacy. --William M. Pinsof, PhD, President, The Family Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889373787
• ISBN 13: 9780889373785
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 68