The quick theory reference guide : a resource for expert and novice mental health professionals / Karin Jordan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordan, Karin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an effort to bridge significant limitations in current textbooks, these 34 articles comprise a reader that covers counseling and psychotherapy theories as well as family therapy techniques. The result gives an overview of the differences between counseling and therapy and family theories, 12 counseling and psychotherapy models (including Alder, Jung, existential, client-centered, gestalt, behavioral, rational emotive behavioral, cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment therapy, feminist, and constructivist) and 21 family therapy models based on systems (including contextual, trans-generational, gestalt, Alder, human validation, behavioral therapy for schizophrenia, collaborative therapy and applications of relational competence theories to prevention and psychotherapy. Designed primarily for the classroom, this could also serve general readers as a reference. References are generally up to date.

Contents:

Intro

THE QUICK THEORY REFERENCEGUIDE: A RESOURCE FOR EXPERT ANDNOVICE MENTAL HEALTHPROFESSIONALS

CONTENTS

PREFACE

THE GOAL OF THIS BOOK

FOREWORD

THEORIES IN COUNSELING,PSYCHOTHERAPY AND FAMILY THERAPY

DEFINING PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING:AN INTRAPSYCHIC PARADIGM

Psychotherapy

Counseling

Common Areas for Psychotherapy and Counseling

DEFINING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY:AN INTERPERSONAL PARADIGM

REFERENCES

PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND THERAPY

HISTORY

Basic Concepts

Nature of Persons

Human Needs

Oral Stage

Anal Stage

Phallic Stage

Latency Stag

Genital Stage

Defense Mechanisms

Healthy Functioning

Unhealthy Functioning

Change Processes

Why is Change Difficult

The Therapeutic Environment

Therapeutic Process

Assessment and Diagnosis

TREATMENT

Goals

STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS

Strengths

Limitations

CONCLUSION

ADLERIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY

KEY PERSON AND HISTORY

KEY CONCEPTS

Overview of Adlerian Theory

Basic Assumptions

Healthy vs. Unhealthy/Dysfunctional

Change Process

THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS

Treatment Goals

Phases of Treatment

1. Relationship

2. Assessment

3. Insight

4. Reorientation

The Nature of the Therapeutic Relationship

Techniques

SUMMARY

JUNGIAN THEORY AND THERAPY

THEORY DESCRIPTION

The Change Process

REFERENCES TREATMENT

Goals of Therapy

Common Intervention Strategies

Nature of the Therapeutic Relationship

SUMMARY.

REFERENCES

EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY:PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

DEATH

ANXIETY

FREEDOM AND CHOICE

GUILT

MEANING

TIME AND LIMIT SITUATIONS

EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

Umwelt - Physical Dime

Mitwelt - Social Dimension

Eigenwelt - Personal Dimension

Überwelt - Spiritual Dimension

THEORIES AND/OR PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS

HEALTHY VS. UNHEALTHY/DYSFUNCTIONAL

Dysfunction

THE CHANGE PROCESS

Change

Therapeutic Environment

DETAILED PHASES OF TREATMENT

Joining Phase

Working Phase

Termination Phase

THE NATURE OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP

TECHNIQUES

Techniques Used

Strengths of this Theory

Limitations of this Theory

CLIENT CENTERED THERAPYAND THE PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

The Theory and the Man

Theoretical and Early Philosophical Influences

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

The Foundations

The Actualizing Tendency

Self, Concept of Self, Self-Structure, Ideal Self

Self-Actualization

Congruence/Unitary Actualizing Tendency

NATURE OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP

The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

Healthy Function and Dysfunction

The Therapeutic Process

LIMITATIONS AND STRENGTHS

Perceived Limitations by Critics

A Specific Proclaimed Criticism

General Referents to Limitations

Limitation of the Radical Assumption of Client-Directivity

Strengths of Client-Centered Therapy

GESTALT THERAPY

Needs

Philosophical Underpinnings

HEALTH VS. DYSFUNCTION

THE CHANGE PROCESS.

Change

Why Change is Difficult

Treatment

ASPECTS OF HUMAN FUNCTIONING NOT ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED

BEHAVIOR THERAPY: A FOUNDATIONAL OVERVIEW

Key People

Nature of the Person

Other Theories and/or Philosophical Underpinnings of this Theory

HEALTHY VERSUS UNHEALTHY/DYSFUNCTIONAL

Assessment and Diagnos

Therapeutic Goals

Specific Techniques

EFFECTIVENESS, LIMITATIONS, FUTURE DIRECTION

Effectiveness of this Theory

Future Directions

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

THE TYRANNY OF THE SHOULDS AND MUSTS

THE VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DESIRING AND MUSTURBATING

THE PROFOUND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDGING YOUR BEHAVIORSAND RATING YOUR SELF

PEOPLE'S TENDENCY TO ACT CONSTRUCTIVELYAND DESTRUCTIVELY

MULTIMODAL ASPECTS OF REBT

REBT EVOCATIVE-EMOTIVE AND BEHAVIORAL EXERCISES

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPYAND THE THIRD GENERATION OF COGNITIVEBEHAVIOR THERAPY

BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Changing the Core Focus

The Third Wave: Focusing on Context

Relational Frame Theory: A Contextual Science of Language and Cognition

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY

Acceptance

Cognitive Defusion

Present Moment Awareness

Self as Context

Values

Committed Action

Process and Outcome: Overview of the Evidence

ACT and the Third Generation

REFERENCES.

TREATING MENTAL HEALTHAS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM:A NEW LEADERSHIP ROLE FOR COUNSELORS

PHYSICAL HEALTH

MENTAL HEALTH

Defining Mental Health as Completely Separate from Mental Illness

The Public Health Model

Why People with Psychological Symptoms should be Treated as PublicHealth Problems

Replacing External Control with Choice Theory

Counseling and Teaching Are Important Parts of the Mental Health Model

Creating a Public Mental Health Delivery System Based on Choice Theory

I Encourage ACA Members to Offer Choice Theory Focus Groups

Invite the Mental Health Associations to Get Involved

A Final Very Important Word

The William Glasser Institute

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EMPOWERMENT FEMINIST THERAPY

History

PRINCIPLES OF EMPOWERMENT FEMINIST THERAPY

Principle I: Personal and Social Identities are Interdependent

Principle II: The Personal is Political

Principle III: Relationships are Egalitarian

Principle IV: Women's Perspectives are Valued

Healthy and Unhealthy Functioning

Feminist Perspectives of Purposes of Assessment and Diagnosis

Feminist Tools

What is Diagnosed?

Nature of Therapeutic Relationships

EFT Counseling Goals

Detailed Phases of Treatment

EFT Techniques

STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OFEMPOWERMENT FEMINIST THERAPY

Limitations and Challenges

AN OVERVIEW OF CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY

Healthy vs. Unhealthy/Dysfunctional Functioning

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ADLERIAN FAMILY THERAPY

KEY CONCEPTS OF ADLERIAN PSYCHOLOGY

Social Interest

Private Logic

Purposivenes

Life Style

Choices and Consequences

Holism

Encouragement

ADLERIAN PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MENTAL HEALTH

APPLICATION OF ADLERIAN PRINCIPLES TO FAMILY THERAPY

THE ADLERIAN CHANGE PROCESSESAND THERAPEUTIC ENVIRONMENT

THE ADLERIAN THERAPIST

ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT

OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY IN FAMILY THERAPY

OBJECT RELATIONS AND FAMILY OF ORIGIN

HEALTHY FUNCTION VS. DYSFUNCTION

Therapist Behavior/Role

Assessment

OBJECT RELATIONS FAMILY THERAPY

HEALTHY FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION

Process of Therapy

CONTEXTUAL FAMILY THERAPY

STRENGTHS AND LIMI

TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY THERAPY THEORIES

Healthy vs. Unhealthy/Dysfunctional Behavior

Bowen Family Systems Theory

Contextual Family Theory

Framo

THERAPEUTIC ENVIRONMENT

Goals.

Phases of Treatment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62081-358-0

OCLC:

923665098