The Process Therapy Model: The Six Personality Types with Adaptations - Softcover

Taibi Kahler Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981656501 ISBN 13: 9780981656502

Publisher: Taibi Kahler Associates, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

This is a handbook on the anatomy of personality that therapists and non-therapists alike will find to be an invaluable aid to effective communication and positive change. Because it is grounded in process, clinicians can use Dr. Kahler's Process Therapy Model in conjunction with the therapeutic or counseling approach they otherwise prefer. The model provides a means of rapidly and accurately assessing personality structure through language and behavioral cues. Dr. Kahler's six Personality Types and the role that each plays in everyone's personality structure are described in detail. The identification of the unique way that each Type perceives the world, combined with knowledge of the Channel, or style of communication, that each prefers, provides a formula for immediately connecting and establishing rapport. Dr. Kahler's award-winning discoveries of Drivers and Miniscripts provide a second-by-second means of knowing if a person is "open" to how we are speaking, as well as the level of distress the person is experiencing and how the person is likely to sabotage his or her success. Dr. Kahler identifies the three sequential degrees of distress behavior that are unique to each Personality type, when that behavior is likely to indicate a Ware Adaptation, and intervention strategies to address that behavior. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the model is the concept of "Phasing" and the Developmental Stages and related Issues that precipitate it. Phase changes are times in which we experience prolonged, intense distress, work through that distress and emerge with a new motivational outlook. The model describes how each Type experiences a Phase change, identifies how best to resolve the struggle and predicts how our motivations will change afterward.

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About the Author

Taibi Kahler holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Child Development and Family Life, and a B.A. in English Literature, all from Purdue University. He is a Clinical Psychologist, and has held licensures as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and as a Licensed Counselor. He is the originator of the Process Therapy Model and the Process Communication Model. More than 700,00 people worldwide have been profiled using the Pesonality Pattern Inventory (PPI), the assessment instrument developed for these models. Therapists and counselors have found the Proces Therapy Model to be uniquely valuable in treating and counseling their clients. The Proces Communication Model is used by businesses and government agencies throughout the world as a management, selection, placement and motivation methodology and by educators to maximize their effectiveness and to connect with hard to reach students. Dr. Kahler received the 1977 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award for his groundbreaking article "The Miniscript". In 1978, he was invited to be an interviewing psychologist by Dr. Terry MGuire, NASA's Lead Psychiatrist for Manned Spaceflight. As a result, the PPI was used in astronaut selection and Dr. Kahler's methodology was incorporated into the astronaut selection, evaluation, training and management processes for almost two decades. Dr. Kahler has held memberships in a variety of national and international professional organizations, including the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, The American Group Psychotherapy Association, the International Transactional Analysis Association, and has been honored by organizations and publications worldwide. He's held memberships in four high I.Q. societies, and received the 2006 Hall of Fame Award from Intertel. Dr. Kahler has authored 4 books, in five languages and more than 100 other articles and publications. Thirty books, as well as a dozen doctoral dissertations, have been written on Dr. Kahler's personality models, on topics including education, relationships, management, counsulting, an spiritual applications. He's been communication advisor and friend to former President Clinton and was hired to provide psychodemographic polling information for his campaign. Dr. Kahler is President of Kahler Communication, Inc., which manages his works and operations worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taibi Kahler Associates, Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981656501
• ISBN 13: 9780981656502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285