Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Practice Management

Premature termination--patient dropout, in Dr. Herbert s. Strean's dependably conversational idiom--is a blow to the therapist's self-esteem, professional status, and pocketbook. Traditionally, responsibility for it has been imputed to the patient's resistance or lack or loss of motivation. In keeping with contemporary recognition that the therapeutic process is a reciprocally influential partnership, however, Dr. Strean teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. He brings forty years of professional practice to the challenge of recommending appropriate interventions for...

In Life Witness: Evolution of the Psychotherapist, T. Byram Karasu demonstrates how a young therapist can become an expert clinician by transcending his own school of therapy. Every young therapist attempts to perfect his skills by anchoring onto a single paradigm and becoming an expert technician of that particular school. Within the first five to ten years of practice--the so-called experiential evolution phase--the therapist finds that no single paradigm is suitable for treating all psychopathology. The therapist thus begins to appropriate techniques from other schools of psychotherapy,...

Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy offers salient points learned from the author's forty years of practice and teaching, and applies psychodynamic psychotherapy to the contemporary practice climate. Emphasizing the therapeutic relationship and the dimension of time, it grounds the discussion in clinical application. Including more than fifty vignettes and four extended case presentations, the author deconstructs successful interchanges as well as errors. Part I sets out central themes and components of this contemporary view of dynamic...

Dr Karasu's voice transcends the usual boundaries of the profession as he introduces to all therapists - of different disciplines, backgrounds, allegiances, specialties and areas of expertise - a broader, more universal view of healing psychic pain. Using verbatim clinical exchanges, he reveals his own internal dialogue (including the interpretations he might have made), considers what varied experts have said on the subject, and intervenes with an astonishingly creative voice.

Supervision Can Be Playful focuses on the dynamic nature of the clinical supervisory relationship when the supervisee is a mental health professional working with children. The contributors focus on the unique issues faced in supervising child and play therapists, as well as the unique challenges faced by these clinicians in treatment. The rationale for using play-based techniques in supervision, along with the varying facets of transference, countertransference, cultural sensitivity and engagement of the supervisee are addressed.