The heroic client : doing client-directed, outcome-informed therapy / Barry L. Duncan, Scott D. Miller ; foreword by Larry E. Beutler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Barry L.

Contributor:

Miller, Scott D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client-centered psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2000]

Summary:

Psychotherapy has for too long relegated the client to a minor role in the drama of therapeutic healing. Moreover, in today's system of managed care, the client is marginalized further as the field is increasingly medicalized and supervised by those interested only in the bottom line. The result: clients are depersonalized by diagnostic labels that have predetermined limits to care, leaving them with few options for meaningful individual treatment. And this system often forces therapists of all disciplines to forgo new or alternative treatments, leaving them enslaved to follow practices in which they no longer believe. It's time for a radical change.

In The Heroic Client, Barry Duncan and Scott Miller outline the steps to revitalize psychotherapy by harnessing the client's own powers of regeneration and enlisting the client's own perceptions, and thereby making treatment more effective and accountable. This innovative approach advocates for the client's voice in all aspects of therapy and shows how to tailor both relational stances and treatment approaches to each client's personal goals. The authors present a simple, valid, and reliable way of legitimizing therapy to third-party payers using client feedback about the process and outcome of therapy.

Contents:

1 Therapy at the Crossroads 1

2 Mental Health Mythology / Barry Duncan, Scott Miller, Jacqueline Sparks 18

3 The Shift to Client-Directed Change 63

4 Becoming Outcome-Informed in Clinical Practice / Scott Miller, Barry Duncan, Lynn Johnson 90

5 Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy in Action 119

6 The Client's Theory of Change / Barry Duncan, Scott Miller, Susanne Coleman, Lisa Kelledy, Steven Kopp 143

7 The Client as Researcher and Supervisor / Barry Duncan, Scott Miller, Lee Shilts, Jacqueline Sparks, C Sara, Peter Bishop, Susanne Coleman, Lisarene Reynolds, Marny Nedlin, Muriel Singer, Jeff Krepps 175

8 Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy on Planet Mental Health / Jacqueline Sparks, Barry Duncan, Scott Miller 192

Epilogue: Last Call for the Heroic Client 217

I. A First-Person Account of Mental Health Services / Ronald Bassman 225

II. Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Resource Information / Ronald Bassman 229

III. Consumer Tips for Therapy 231

IV. Resistance, Subversion, and Insurrection 233

V. Process and Outcome Measures 237

VI. Loony Bird Awards 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index.

ISBN:

0787947253

OCLC:

42863135