Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy: How To Do Deep Therapy - Briefly and How To Do Brief Therapy - Deeply: Second edition - Softcover

Jaison, Bala

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973228628 ISBN 13: 9780973228625

Publisher: Focusing for Creative Living, 2007

Synopsis

Brief or deep? There is a growing trend in the field of psychotherapy toward more short term, constructive, solution-based approaches to creating change. But what about the depth of experience offered by the Experientially oriented models? Is there room in the practice of psychotherapy to draw upon what works, combining the best of each approach? This book demonstrates an innovative approach to integrating Solution Focused and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy - SOFT (Solution Oriented Focusing Therapy), providing clinicians with creative, concrete tools to naturally weave and blend the fundamentals of both the Experiential and Brief traditions, with emphasis on honoring the clinician's own unique therapy style. Highlighting specific "integration spots" throughout, this user-friendly book will spark the imagination of practitioners, new and seasoned alike, who strive to harmonize and facilitate change - both deeply and briefly - to get the most from the therapy hour.

About this title

About the Author:

Bala Jaison, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist in private practice for individuals, couples, and families, and Director of Focusing for Creative Living, a Gov't Recognized Educational Institution providing leading-edge training for therapists, educators, business and medical professionals. She has developed the innovative therapy approach Solution Oriented Focusing Therapy (SOFT), integrating the models of Solution Focused and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy, which she currently teaches to therapists in North America and abroad. She is a Certifying Coordinator for the International Focusing Institute, co-editor of the Folio, the academic journal of the International Focusing Institute, and has written extensively on the clinical applications of Focusing in therapy. Her book has been translated into Spanish and Dutch.

Review:

This user-friendly book is nothing short of brilliant. Dr. Jaison's compelling clinical vignettes, taken from a wide variety of true life examples, bring you right into her office. The book is filled with the wisdom of her experience in both Focusing Oriented and Solution Oriented approaches. By the end of the book, the reader has a new level of confidence and greater skill in choosing which approach might be most useful for a particular client and even how to phrase the intervention. While many books are interesting to read once, I predict that this invaluable and carefully written hands-on guide will prove to be the kind of book you will want to reread, consult and keep close by as a companion. --Dr. Joan Klagsbrun, Clinicall Psychologist, Leslie College, Boston

The book is indispensable to family physicians for whom counseling is part of their every-day schedule. It is well written and practical, and just brimming with strong and clear examples. With the reality of present-day health care and the limited time we doctors have for counseling, I feel that it very successfully teaches us how to best manage our time and most help our patients. I will recommend this book to all my friends - physicians and therapists alike. It's a treasure I wish I could have discovered when I first started family medicine. --Dr. Miraslava Lhotsky, Author of "The Healthy Boomer" and "The Juggling Act" (McClelland and Steward}

The book is like a breath of fresh air! - readable, concrete, and immediately applicable. It's a terrifically accessible tool ... direct, simple, and humorous. It really works. I particularly appreciate how it embodies these two seeming disparate practices into a workable and powerful who that makes sense. --Karen Whalen, Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Focusing for Creative Living
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0973228628
• ISBN 13: 9780973228625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232