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1 online resource (134 pages) |
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Developing Counselling series |
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Developing Counselling series
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I Developing Work with the Internal and External Setting -- 1 Establish and maintain the therapeutic setting -- 2 Cultivate and develop your therapeutic stance -- 3 Negotiate and articulate clearly the therapeutic contract -- 4 Identify and assess your client's inner world position -- 5 Assess your client's availability for a therapeutic alliance -- 6 Abandon memory and desire in relation to your client -- II Developing Work with Issues around the Boundaries |
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7 Observe and respond to your client's activities around the boundaries -- 8 Pay particular attention to beginnings and endings -- 9 Allow for the importance and impact of gaps, breaks and interruptions to the counselling -- 10 Receive and respond appropriately to your client's signals about money, time and space -- 11 Recognize the limits of your competence and refer on where appropriate -- 12 Resist the invitations of the client to collusion -- III Developments in Understanding and Working with the Transference -- 13 Allow yourself to become available for use in your client's inner world |
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14 Identify and work with the client's focus of transference -- 15 Identify and address resistance to the counselling -- 16 Accept and contain the development of negativity in the transference -- 17 Monitor and assess your client's responses to your interventions and interpretations -- 18 Monitor and attend to the presence of sexuality in the relationship between you and the client -- IV Developments in Understanding and Working with Counter-Transference -- 19 Observe and digest your own responses to client material |
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20 Balance your feeling and thinking activities in your practice of counselling -- 21 Use supervision, peer groups and personal therapy to work with your counter-transference -- 22 Allow for the interference of your own unresolved conflicts in the process of the counselling -- 23 Attend to the impact of your client's discourse as well as to the content -- 24 Be prepared to get it wrong and to build on that -- V Developments in Working with the Whole Counselling Relationship -- 25 Respect and interpret your client's defences -- 26 Wait and wait again before responding to your client |
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27 Inform your counselling with regular theoretical input -- 28 Develop your capacity for thinking and responding at different levels -- 29 Permit yourself not to know what is going on -- 30 Give time and space to work towards an ending -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
'This book deals with many aspects of psychodynamic counselling from the minutiae of the extrinsic context, such as decor, through the ""therapeutic stance of attentive reserve"" on to an elaboration of the elements of a therapeutic relationship ... the book is liberally garnished with case studies ... informative and thought-provoking ... a useful resource to those teaching psychodynamic principles ... If you are new to psychodynamic work, this book could be a safe and helpful guide ... The ideas and techniques offered by the author may also prove intriguing and even inspiring to those (like me) f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[115]-116) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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Mental health counseling.
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PSYCHOLOGY.
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Human Services.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE.
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Mental health counseling
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781446264799 |
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1446264793 |
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1446226492 |
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9781446226490 |
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1283881349 |
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9781283881340 |
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0803989792 |
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9780803989795 |
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