Integrating existential and narrative therapy
Subtitle: a theoretical base for eclectic practice
By: Alphons J. Richert
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780820704395
Description: "Offers an approach to psychotherapy and psychological insights that combines narrative and humanistic-existential approaches, focusing on instruction and therapeutic activities that provide a framework for therapists to consider the collaboratively created nature of therapy and learn how to carefully follow a client's meaning-making processes that occur on both internal and interpersonal levels"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory in psychotherapy; title: Some basic existential ideas; title: Some basic constructivist/narrative ideas; title: Preparing for integration; title: An integrative proposal; title: An integrative understanding of self; title: The nature of psychological dysfunction; title: The nature of the therapeutic relationship; title: Beginning therapy I : co-constructing the therapeutic bond; title: Beginning therapy II : co-creating therapeutic goals and tasks; title: Internal meaning-making processes in ongoing treatment; title: Interpersonal meaning-making processes in ongoing treatment; title: Process, content, and the construction of therapist interventions; title: The existential/narrative approach : review and reflections.