The performance of practice : enhancing the repertoire of therapy with children and families / Jim Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Jim, 1952-

Series:

Systemic thinking and practice series.

Systemic thinking and practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family psychotherapy.

Child psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions. The central metaphor is the performance of practice emphasized in the spoken word and expressed in all its non-verbal complexity. How we, as practitioners, use every aspect of our being to communicate with the other in practice, how we shape and mould our words through gesture and other non-verbal actions in response to the gestures and words of others in a continually recursive process. Therapy is an enactment, a performance that is created between all the participants.'- Jim Wilson, from the Preface"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; Introduction; PART I: Enhancing the repertoire of theory; 1: Pride and prejudice in family therapy theories; PART II: Enhancing the repertoire of practice; 2: The emergence of Systemic Focused Drama: creating a sense of occasion; 3: Situating Systemic Focused Dramas; 4: Systemic Focused Drama: modes and applications; 5: Stories and their performance; PART III Enhancing the use of self in practice; 6: The therapist and the performance of practice; 7: Six Scales for Reflection on practice

As the curtain fallsREFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-92169-1

0-429-90746-X

0-429-48269-8

1-283-07031-6

9786613070319

1-84940-606-5

9780429482694

OCLC:

723945207