When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Therapy for Walk-In Clients
Highly efficient runners can cover a lot of ground in an hour, and the same is true of highly efficient therapists. Both succeed by wasting no effort every move contributes to a clearly articulated goal. Slive and Bobele and their contributors are efficiency experts. They know how to provide a complete therapeutic experience for clients in the time it takes many clinicians to just begin warming up. They also know how to provide a complete learning experience for readers. This book provides you with the necessary principles, research, practical how-to s, and in-the-trenches case illustrations for inspiring a fine-tuning (or complete overhaul!) of your therapeutic assumptions and practices. Lace up your shoes and get reading! --Douglas Flemons, PhDIn this era of reduced budgets and surging mental health needs, this book should find its way into as many hands as possible. It shows a respectful, effective way of using whatever time is available, even an hour, to help people. Most therapists don't even accept that this is possible, let alone know how to use that time effectively. This book shows that it is not only possible, but how to do it. Buy it for the whole staff. --Bill O'Hanlon, MSArnie and Monte have gathered a confab of fellow professionals to join them in a noble effort to communicate with clarity and precision exactly what it takes to truly help people in a world whereÂ it may be thatÂ 'one hour is all you have.' All of the contributors bring their own perspective on what it takes to deliver quality counseling in a single session, while describing the various successful approaches sustaining organizations or agencies have implemented to support that delivery. If you are a therapist,Â offering single or multiple sessions, and you want to maximize the impact of your work, When One Hour is All You Have will be an effective and enlightening resource. --Scott Miller, PhDIn this era of reduced budgets and surging mental health needs, this book should find its way into as many hands as possible. It shows a respectful, effective way of using whatever time is available, even an hour, to help people. Most therapists don't even accept that this is possible, let alone know how to use that time effectively. This book shows that it is not only possible, but how to do it. Buy it for the whole staff. --Bill O'Hanlon, MSArnie and Monte have gathered a confab of fellow professionals to join them in a noble effort to communicate with clarity and precision exactly what it takes to truly help people in a world where it may be that 'one hour is all you have.' All of the contributors bring their own perspective on what it takes to deliver quality counseling in a single session, while describing the various successful approaches sustaining organizations or agencies have implemented to support that delivery. If you are a therapist, offering single or multiple sessions, and you want to maximize the impact of your work, When One Hour is All You Have will be an effective and enlightening resource. --Scott Miller, PhD