Dealing With Resistance In Psychotherapy

Author : Althea J. Horner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0765700778

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Dealing with Resistance in Psychotherapy by Althea J. Horner Pdf

Resistance is an unfortunate term for the manifestation of defense mechanisms in the treatment situation. Use of the word to a psychoanalytically unsophisticated patient may evoke undesired consequences because to a patient, it implies deliberate intent and thus, blame. From the patient's unconscious, or at time conscious, point of view, these defenses protect the individual from a variety of intrapsychic or interpersonal dangers. As long as these defenses are in play, the process of exploration and discovery comes to a halt. They must be understood and carefully analyzed for they are at the heart of the treatment impasse. This book is written for the professional psychotherapist who may be puzzled why work with a particular patient or client is going nowhere. It brings to the therapist's attention a wide variety of these defenses, these resistances, so that they can be addressed and resolved.

Author : Clifton W. Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Resistance (Psychoanalysis)
ISBN : 0976065606

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Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients by Clifton W. Mitchell Pdf

Author : Robert L. Leahy
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462506057

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Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy by Robert L. Leahy Pdf

This practical guide presents Leahy's multidimensional model of resistance in cognitive therapy. Richly illustrated with case examples and session vignettes, the book addresses a variety of ways that clients may resist basic therapeutic procedures: noncompliance with agenda setting and homework assignments, splitting transference with other therapists, inappropriate behavior, and premature termination. Underlying processes of resistance are explored, from the desire for validation to risk aversion and self-handicapping. Also highlighted are ways that the therapist's own responses may inadvertently impede change. Provided are innovative tools for getting treatment back on track, including targeted interventions, in-session "experiments," and questionnaires and graphic models to share with clients.

Author : Martha Stark
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 076570370X

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Working with Resistance by Martha Stark Pdf

Working with Resistance is about heartache, grieving, letting go and moving on - as the patient's resistances are worked through and her defences are overcome. It is, therefore, a book about hope that arises in the context of discovering that it is possible to survive the experience of heartbreak, sadder perhaps but certainly wiser and more realistic.

Author : Albert Ellis PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 082614912X

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Overcoming Resistance by Albert Ellis PhD Pdf

With a new foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe, PhD, ScD, St. John's University "Albert Ellis has written many books on his favorite topic Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Although he writes on that topic very well, he often does not write about generic psychotherapy. REBT is an integrative form of psychotherapy. Following this model, psychotherapists can incorporate many diverse techniques and strategies to change clients' dysfunctional behaviors and emotions . Much of what Al identifies as good REBT in this book is just good psychotherapy. Because people so universally identify Al with REBT, people may generally overlook his wisdom as a clinician. Having worked with Al for more than thirty years, I have been fortunate enough to learn from him. Much of the knowledge I learned from Al and cherish the most is not necessarily about REBT theory. They concern wise ways of thinking about clinical problems. That is why, out of all Al's books, this is my favorite. This is Al Ellis, the clinician." -- From the Foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe, PhD, ScD, Director of Professional Education, Albert Ellis Institute; Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, St. John's University Now available in an affordable paperback, this edition takes a look at the underlying causes of resisting cognitive-emotional-behavioral change and the methods used to overcome them. Written in present-action language, Ellis gives an overview of the basic principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Ellis charts the changes in the field that have taken place in the 20 years leading up to 2002, when this edition was originally published. The book also integrates recent therapies into REBT, including psychotherapy, solution-focused therapy, and recent findings of experimental psychology.

Author : Leslie Rosenthal
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461630517

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Resolving Resistance in Group Psychotherapy by Leslie Rosenthal Pdf

A mixture of theory and practice, this study of individual and group resistance in psychotherapy is illustrated by numerous clinical vignettes. Offering techniques for handling and resolving resistance within the group setting, it should appeal to clinicians and group therapists.

Author : Allan Abbass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Resistance (Psychoanalysis)
ISBN : 0988378876

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Reaching Through Resistance by Allan Abbass Pdf

Author : Vance R. Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Adolescent psychiatry
ISBN : 0765701499

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Getting Past Resistance in Psychotherapy with the Out-of-control Adolescent by Vance R. Sherwood Pdf

A growing number of adolescents arrive in the therapist's office beyond adult control. Their behavior is outrageous, they use drugs heavily, and their moods fluctuate wildly. Nothing seems to work. If they stay in treatment, they make a shambles of the process. If they terminate prematurely, therapists may feel they never really got hold of the case; worse, they are not sure how they could have done so. Therapists looking at their interactions with patients will usually notice distinct patterns. The out-of-control patient usually shows a preference for one of five pathological patterns: narcissism, masochism, the paranoid stance, the schizoid defense, and affective lability. This book studies the five patterns of interaction typical of out-of-control adolescents, showing therapists how to recognize each and introducing interventions to interrupt them. When patients are forced into new, less comfortable experiences of themselves and their therapists, more honest exchanges become possible and more conventional treatment approaches become feasible.

Author : Paul L. Wachtel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780306407697

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Resistance by Paul L. Wachtel Pdf

RESISTANCE AND THE PROCESS OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE Paul L. Wachtel Psychotherapy, whether practiced from a psychodynamic or a behavioral point of view,! is rarely as straightforward as textbooks and case reports usually seem to imply. More often the work proceeds in fits and starts (and often does not seem to be proceeding at all, but rather unraveling or moving backward). The "typical" case is in fact quite atypical. Almost all cases present substantial difficulties for which the therapist feels, at least some of the time, quite unprepared. Practicing psychotherapy is a difficult-if also rewarding-way to earn a living. It is no profession for the individual who likes certainty, predictability, or a fairly constant sense that one knows what one is doing. There are few professions in which feeling stupid or stymied is as likely to be a part of one's ordinary professional day, even for those at the pinnacle of the field. Indeed, I would be loath to refer a patient to any therapist who declared that he almost always felt effective and clear about what was going on. Such a feeling can be maintained, I believe, only by an inordinate amount of bravado and lack of critical self-reflection. But the therapist trying to get some ideas about how to work with 1 These are, of course, not the only two points of view in psychotherapy; nor do I believe they are the only two of value.

Author : Taiwo Afuape
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136655050

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Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma by Taiwo Afuape Pdf

This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma. Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma draws together narrative therapy, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and liberation psychology approaches. It critically reviews each approach and demonstrates what each contributes to the other as well as how to draw them together in a coherent way. The book presents: an original take on CMM through the lenses of power and resistance a new way of thinking about resistance in life and therapy, using the metaphor of creativity numerous case examples to support strong theory-practice links. Through the exploration of power, resistance and liberation in therapy, this book presents innovative ways of conceptualising these issues. As such it will be of interest to anyone in the mental health fields of therapy, counselling, social work or critical psychology, regardless of their preferred model. It will also appeal to those interested in a socio-political contextual analysis of complex human experience.

Author : Anssi Peräkylä,Charles Antaki,Sanna Vehviläinen,Ivan Leudar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139470124

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Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy by Anssi Peräkylä,Charles Antaki,Sanna Vehviläinen,Ivan Leudar Pdf

Psychotherapy is a 'talking cure'- clients voice their troubles to therapists, who listen, prompt, question, interpret and generally try to engage in a positive and rehabilitating conversation with their clients. Using the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis - a radical approach to how language in interaction works - this book sheds light on the subtle and minutely organised sequences of speech in psychotherapeutic sessions. It examines how therapists deliver questions, cope with resistance, reinterpret experiences and how they can use conversation to achieve success. Conversation is a key component of people's everyday and professional lives and this book provides an unusually detailed insight into the complexity and power of talk in institutional settings. Featuring contributions from a collection of internationally renowned authors, Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy will appeal to researchers and graduate students studying conversation analysis across the disciplines of psychology, sociology and linguistics.

Author : Martha Stark
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461627319

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A Primer on Working with Resistance by Martha Stark Pdf

"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which people come to us asking for help in changing, and then do their level best to keep change from happening... This is a work which is at once a practical guide and a theoretical tour de force. Readers who journey in this slim volume with Dr. Stark will return from their travels to their practice much educated, having encountered new ideas and old ones in new forms, better able to face the everyday travails of psychotherapy." –David E. Scharff, M.D. "Every so often a book emerges from the vast sea of analytic writings that startles in its creativity and usefulness. A Primer on Working with Resistance is just such a book. Dr. Stark is as clear as a bell. She manages complex theoretical concepts with sophistication and great sensitivity for the material. For example, the distinctions she makes between convergent and divergent conflict, or between illusion and distortion, are elegant. The question and answer format of the book is reassuring for the beginner, and a delight for the more experienced reader as well." –Anne Alonso, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School A Jason Aronson Book

Author : Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015025208383

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Compassionate Therapy by Jeffrey A. Kottler Pdf

Compassionate Therapy explores the characteristics of difficult clients and the nature of client resistance. Arguing that conflict can be a constructive force, it shows how practitioners can use the struggle to examine their own abilities, deepen their compassion, and improve therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness. It offers proven approaches to working through therapeutic impasses with difficult clients and blAnds professional development with personal growth.

Author : John Sommers-Flanagan,Rita Sommers-Flanagan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119026853

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Tough Kids, Cool Counseling by John Sommers-Flanagan,Rita Sommers-Flanagan Pdf

Tough Kids, Cool Counseling offers creative techniques for overcoming resistance, fostering constructive therapy relationships, and generating opportunities for client change and growth. This edition includes a new chapter on resistance busters and updated and fresh ideas for establishing rapport, carrying out informal assessments, improving negative moods, modifying maladaptive behaviors, and educating parents. Suicide assessment, medication referrals, and therapy termination are also discussed. John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan clearly enjoy working with kids—no matter how tough—and their infectious spirit and proven techniques will help you bring renewed energy into the counseling process. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here: http://isgweb.counseling.org/ISGweb/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=72850 *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Author : Bonnie S. LeRoy,Patricia M. Veach,Nancy P. Callanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119529859

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Genetic Counseling Practice by Bonnie S. LeRoy,Patricia M. Veach,Nancy P. Callanan Pdf

The second edition of Genetic Counseling Practice: Advanced Concepts and Skills, provides in-depth content regarding the advanced competencies for meeting patient needs across the changing landscape of genetic counseling practice. The content aligns with the Reciprocal Engagement Model (REM) of practice which integrates the biomedical knowledge and psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling. This edition has been revised and expanded to reflect advances made in the present-day field. Edited by a team two genetic counselors and a psychologist, the chapters offer a holistic picture of genetic counseling. Chapter authors are all recognized experts in the profession. The chapters are grounded in evidence-based practice and research. Each chapter includes learning activities to help readers apply concepts and skills. Featured topic areas include: Meeting the needs of culturally diverse patients Addressing challenging patient dynamics Working with children, adolescents and families Using emerging service delivery models for genetic counseling Engaging in self-reflective, deliberate practice Promoting genetic counselor professional development Genetic Counseling Practice is an indispensable guide to the complex and evolving field of genetic counseling, and this updated second edition will help practitioners and trainees alike navigate its most pressing and practical challenges with skill and care.