Make Every Session Count
Getting the Most Out of Your Brief Therapy
Preston, John, Varzos, Nicolette, Liebert, Douglas S. Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, USA
Year Published: 2000 First Published: 1995
Pages: 180pp Price: $16.95 ISBN: 1-57224-190-X
Resource Type: Book
A client guide to brief therapy.
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Table of Contents
Foreward by Simon Budman, Ph.D.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: What is Brief Therapy?
1. Is Brief Better?
2. Off the Couch and into Action
3. What's Therapy Like?
4. What are Therapists Like?
5. Realistic Results
6. When Brief is Not Enough
Part 2: How does Therapy Help?
7. From Distress to Healing
8. From Talk that Hurts to Talk that Heals
9. From Illusion to Reality
10. From Isolation to Contact
11. Disorders Responsive to Specific Treatments
Part 3: A Coping Skills Manual
12. "I think I can . . . I think I can . . . "
13. Getting Along with Others
14. Staying Healthy/Reducing Stress
15. Acute Distress Tolerance Skills
16. Doing "Homework" that Heals
17. Strengthening Your "Self"
Part 4: Are Medications the Answer?
18. A Brief Guide to Psychiatric Medications
Part 5: Managing Under Managed Care
19. Finding Your Way Through the Managed Care Maze
Afterword
Appendices
A. Sample Therapist's Statement on Confidentiality
B. Self-Rating Checklist
C. Group Programs for Help with Emotional Problems
References
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