Elements of the Helping Process: A Guide for Clinicians

ISBN-13: 9780415808804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 341 str.

Raymond Fox

Opis

Elements of the Helping Process: A Guide for Clinicians takes a humanistic approach to guiding clinicians, emphasizing that professional practice involves a deliberate, conscious, and disciplined use of self with clients participating in a forum that is steady, safe and consistent.

The book maintains that optimal clinicians display strengths in both rational systematization and empathy. They marry the rational with the sensitive, the science with the art, the head with the heart, making a direct connection between formal theory and its application to the uncertainties and ambiguities of day-to-day practice. This allows them to render precise assessment and effective intervention as they make clients feel heard, understood, and cared about. Elements posits that the rudiments of the professional encounter between clinicians and clients should encourage a milieu of mutuality, engagement, and active problem-solving.

The overall message of the book is for clinicians, anchored in discipline, art and compassion, to establish with their clients an ambiance of openness, challenge, and change.

Spis treści

To Do Our Work. Creating a "Safehouse." The Helping Relationship. When You Begin, Begin at the Beginning. Contracting through Goal Setting. Neuroscience, Genetics, and Brain Chemistry. Evaluating Client and Clinician Progress. Assessment: Learning from a Jigsaw Puzzle. Personality Styles. Resiliency: "Who Says I Can’t." On Reflection and Self-Awareness. Models of Helping: Working with an Individual. Models of Helping: Working with a Family. Clients Recommend Effective Ways to Treat Trauma. Advances in Working with Complex Trauma. Creative Ways of Capturing the Life Story. The Written Word: Enriching Your Work. Metaphors in Our Losses. The Termination Process. Epilogue.

O autorze

Raymond Fox, PhD, LCSW, is a Professor in the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University, USA. He also maintains a private practice as a certified individual, marital, family, sex, and group psychotherapist.