Psychological Interventions
Subtitle: A Guide to Strategies
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: September 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780275948511
Subjects: Counselling; Psychotherapy; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Psychology
First sentence: Paradoxical intention is a present-focused, short-term therapeutic strategy wherein the therapist recommends or encourages the continuation of maladaptive behaviors so as to ultimately undercut them.