Reimagining Therapy through Social Contextual Analyses: Finding New Ways to Support People in Distress

ISBN-13: 9781032292434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Bernard Guerin

Opis

This book attempts to ‘shake up’ the current complacency around therapy and ‘mental health’ behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis, showing how changes to our social, discursive and societal environments.

Spis treści

Part 1: Dissecting current therapies. 1. Psychology, pop-psychology, and common-sense psychology: Whatever were they thinking for 150 years?. 2. What are the contexts for therapies you need to be aware of?. 3. What do therapists say about what they do?: Theories and marketing of therapy. 4. What do therapists do, in general?:  ‘Applying treatments’ as a misleading metaphor. 5. How do therapists respond?: Implicit and explicit social relationships of therapies. Part 2: A new approach to stop pathologizing and exoticizing ‘mental health’. 6. What is different with social contextual analyses?. 7. The pivotal role of language for life and therapy. Part 3: Rethinking ‘mental health’ as living in restrictive bad life situations. 8. Contextual models of ‘mental health’ behaviours: Behaviours shaped by restrictive bad life situations. 9. How changing context can change action, talking, and thinking: Analysing collateral and legacy effects. 10. Summarizing the changes needed for ‘therapy’ after including social and societal contexts. 11. Reimagining ‘treatments’ in their social and societal contexts: What do we do instead? Index

O autorze

Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.