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Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy: Working with Emotions and the Therapeutic Relationship: The Guilford Family Therapy Series

Autor Eve Lipchik
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iul 2011

Prin volumul Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy, Eve Lipchik propune o recalibrare necesară a terapiei centrate pe soluții (SFT), trecând dincolo de aplicarea mecanică a întrebărilor pragmatice. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea reușește să integreze dimensiunea emoțională și calitatea relației terapeutice într-un model care, istoric, a pus accent aproape exclusiv pe viitor și pe punctele forte. Această lucrare nu neagă eficiența tehnicilor consacrate, ci le oferă o profunzime umanistă, prevenind abordările de tip „rețetă” care pot eșua în cazurile complexe.

Comparabil cu Solution Focused Brief Therapy de Harvey Ratner în rigurozitate, volumul de față este actualizat pentru contextul clinic modern, unde înțelegerea proceselor afective este esențială pentru a debloca situațiile dificile. Structura cărții reflectă o progresie logică: prima parte stabilește fundamentul teoretic, explorând relația terapeut-client și rolul emoțiilor, în timp ce a doua parte se concentrează pe aplicații practice diverse, de la terapia de cuplu și familie până la lucrul cu clienții involuntari sau intervențiile în situații de criză.

Apreciem în mod deosebit includerea unor capitole dedicate cazurilor pe termen lung și mesajelor de sumare, elemente care oferă instrumente concrete pentru terapeuții care doresc să își rafineze stilul. Deși alte titluri, precum Becoming a Solution Detective de John Sharry, se concentrează pe simplificarea procesului pentru începători, Eve Lipchik se adresează profesionistului care caută o înțelegere nuanțată. Stilul este precis, academic dar accesibil, fiind susținut de ilustrații și figuri care facilitează integrarea conceptelor în practica de zi cu zi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781609189914
ISBN-10: 1609189914
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Guilford Publications
Colecția Guilford Press
Seria The Guilford Family Therapy Series


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Professional Practice & Development

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Recomandăm această carte terapeuților care doresc să depășească faza aplicării rigide a tehnicilor SFT. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă integratoare asupra modului în care emoțiile pot fi folosite ca resurse în terapia scurtă. Este un instrument esențial pentru a construi o relație autentică cu clientul, asigurând succesul intervenției chiar și în cazurile în care metodele standard par să stagneze.


Despre autor

Eve Lipchik, MSW, este o figură centrală în peisajul terapiei de familie, fiind membră a American Family Therapy Academy și supervizor certificat AAMFT. A co-fondat ICF Consultants în Milwaukee și a făcut parte din echipa de bază a Brief Family Therapy Center, locul unde terapia centrată pe soluții a fost conceptualizată. Experiența sa vastă în practică privată, predare și consultanță internațională se reflectă în abordarea sa echilibrată, care îmbină rigoarea teoretică cu realitățile clinice, fiind totodată editorul lucrării „Interviewing” și o voce respectată în jurnalele de specialitate.


Descriere scurtă

Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous for—pragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and build on their strengths. Yet when applied in a "one-size-fits-all" manner, these techniques may produce disappointing results and leave clinicians wondering where they have gone wrong. This volume adds a vital dimension to the SFT literature, providing a rich theoretical framework to facilitate nonformulaic clinical decision making. The focus is on how attention to emotional issues, traditionally not emphasized in brief, strengths-based interventions, can help "unstick" difficult situations and pave the way to successful solutions.

Notă biografică

Eve Lipchik, MSW, a certified member and approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, cofounded ICF Consultants, Inc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1988. Previously, she was a core member of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, where she participated in the development of solution-focused therapy. In addition to her private practice, she teaches, consults, and lectures both nationally and internationally. She is the editor of Interviewing and has been published in numerous books and journals, including Psychotherapy Networker, Journal of Systemic Therapies, and Family Process.

Cuprins

I. Theory and Practice
1. A Theory of Solution-Focused Therapy
2. The Therapist–Client Relationship
3. Understanding Clients
4. Emotions in Solution-Focused Therapy
5. The Process of Clarifying Goals
6. The Team behind the Mirror and the Consultation Break
7. The Summation Message and the Suggestion
II. Applications
8. Couple Therapy
9. Family Therapy
10. Working with Involuntary Clients
11. Long-Term Cases
12. The Solution-Focused Approach to Crisis

Recenzii

For our master's students, I have to create a curriculum that brings together a complex array of theory and practice. Lipchik's book is invaluable for this purpose. She clearly conveys the strengths of solution-focused therapy while linking the approach to processes valued in other models, particularly the therapeutic use of emotion.--Douglas C. Breunlin, MSSA, LCSW, LMFT, program director, Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, The Family Institute at Northwestern University

An excellent book for both novice and practiced therapists. My graduate students found this book extremely helpful in guiding them through their first therapy sessions. Lipchik does a wonderful job of integrating emotion and relationship into the practice of solution-focused therapy. What makes this book exceptional is its combination of candid writing, insightful case material, and commentary that applies the theory and techniques across several therapeutic modalities. I highly recommend it.--Elise Cole, PhD, Department of Psychology, California State University, Chico

At last, someone has written a book that integrates the practical simplicity of solution-focused work with the crucial presence of emotion and relationship. Eve Lipchik liberates our understanding of feelings from cumbersome theoretical frameworks, and shows how they are a basic currency in the therapeutic exchange. This book is eminently practical and theoretically illuminating. I highly recommend it.--Stephen Gilligan, PhD, private practice; Author of Therapeutic Trances and The Courage to Love

Rarely does a book convey its message so well or so strongly. Eve Lipchik's mantra, 'I cannot change clients, they can only change themselves,' gently recontextualizes solution-focused work. This book shows that when therapists listen to and talk about struggle and emotion--as well as strengths and hope--clients make their own changes. Eve Lipchik writes like she works, sensitively weaving her ideas through many case examples and applications, from the emotionally overwhelmed individual to violent couples, crisis situations, and long-term situations. Treat yourself to the richness and practical wisdom of her experience and perspective.--John Walter, LCSW, and Jane Peller, LCSW, authors of Recreating Brief Therapy

In this clear yet clinically and theoretically sophisticated volume, Eve Lipchik dispels all the stereotypes of solution-focused therapy (SFT), so that even SFT skeptics will want to give the model a second look. Her version cherishes the uniqueness of clients, is nonformulaic, emotion-focused, and privileges the client-therapist relationship over technique. For Lipchik, SFT goes slowly; clients, not therapists, determine when they want to talk about solutions. Replete with rich case illustrations (which heretofore I would have assumed to be 'too complex' for SFT), the volume has left me with the imprint of a master teacher and clinician and has greatly enriched my practice. With warmth and wisdom, Lipchik shows that SFT is a living, breathing, sensitive, and evolving model.--Douglas H. Sprenkle, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Purdue University

In this inclusive, simply written book, studded with clinical stories like raisins in a cake, Lipchik walks the reader through a deeply unusual approach to solution-focused therapy. She has broadened the theoretical base to include the idea of love as a biological given, and adds concern for emotions to the clinician's repertory. Links are made to Sullivanian theory and to practical humanism, creating a user-friendly path to guide more traditionally trained psychotherapists. This book is a gift for therapists of all stripes and a 'must-have' for training programs and libraries.--Lynn Hoffman, ACSW, Adjunct Lecturer, St. Joseph College, West Hartford; Author of Foundations of Family Therapy and Family Therapy: An Intimate History
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An ideal introduction to SFT and it has already had an impact on the way I work with clients....A useful and enlightening read which widened my view of SFT. I see now that SFT can be empowering for clients and a flexible framework for counsellors of many orientations.
--Private Practice, 6/17/2011