Developmental Strategies for Helpers: Individual, Family, and Network Interventions - Softcover

Ivey, Allen E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917276094 ISBN 13: 9780917276095

Publisher: Microtraining Assoc Inc

Synopsis

Highly practical, this book shows how to integrate developmental theory into counseling and clinical practice. It focuses on the "hard stuff" and this is where the Developmental Counseling and Therapy model has consistently been found effective and highly useful. Research is coming more and more to validate this new model of human change.

Full of specifics, this book can be a groundbreaking experience for your students and for clinical practice.

Contents:

1. Our Developmental Nature 2. Assessing Developmental Level in the Interview and Daily Life 3. Developmental Strategis: Specific Intervention to Facilitate Client Cognitive and Affective Development 4. Confrontation and Perturbation: Creation of the New 5. Development Over the Life Span 6. Using DCT with Personality Disorders: A Positive Developmental View 7. Multicultural Development 8. Network Interventions and DCT 9. Developing and Supervising Helping Professionals

Instructor Guide Available as well as videotape examples of the process in action.

About this title

About the Author

Allen E. Ivey received in Ed.D. from Harvard. He is Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is currently President of Microtraining Associates, an educational publishing firm. An A.B.P.P. in counseling psychology, Dr. Ivey is a past-president and Fellow of the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is been a life member of American Counseling Association. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society for Ethnic and Minority Affairs of APA. The originator of microcounseling and Developmental Counseling and Therapy (DCT), he has won wide recognition and national and international awards including A.C.A.s Professional Development Award. Author or co-author of over 25 books and 200 articles, his works have been translated into at least 13 languages. He did original work on the multicultural implications of the microskills in 1968-74 and has been increasing his work in multicul! tural studies ever since. He is co-author of A Theory of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (with Derald Wing Sue and Paul Pedersen).

Spirituality and multicultural counseling is a recent extension of Mary and Allen Iveys work on interviewing skills plus multicultural and developmental thinking. Allen Iveys most recent writings have focused on Psychotherapy as Liberation and on generating a theoretical/practical approach for working in a positive developmental frame with so-called pathology and DSM-IV. He is an active member of Mebyon Kernow, the nationalist party of Kernow/Cornwall, Greater Britain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microtraining Assoc Inc
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0917276094
• ISBN 13: 9780917276095
• Binding: Paperback