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

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

ISBN 10: 0889373787 / ISBN 13: 9780889373785

Published by Hogrefe & Huber Pub, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resource Activation: Using Clients' Own Strengths in Psychotherapy and Counseling
• Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Pub
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889373787
• ISBN 13: 9780889373785
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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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 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.