| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 432 pages) |
| Contents |
Premises. An orientation to contextual therapy -- The challenge of the therapy of psychotics : background of the contextual approach -- A dialectic view of relationship : the development of the contextual approach -- Outline of the human context. The four dimensions of relational reality -- Interpersonal conflicts of interests : a four dimensional perspective -- Three aspects of the dialogue between persons -- Dialogue between the person and the human context -- Assessing the context. The client-therapist dialogue -- Assessing relational reality -- The process of therapy. Health, autonomy, and relational resources -- Rejunction : reworking the impasse -- Resistances : obstacles to therapeutic progress -- Therapeutic methods. A case illustration -- Balance in motion : crediting -- Starting therapy -- Multidirected partiality -- Contextual work with marriage -- Applications and guidelines. The evolving face of marriage -- Divorce and remarriage -- Parenting problems -- Other applications of ecntextual therapy -- Therapists in context. The making of a contextual therapist -- Endnote: On meaning between the generations |
| Summary |
This volume provides a comprehensive, sharply focused guide to the clinical use of Contextual Therapy as a therapy rooted in the reality of human relationships. The basic principles of Contextual Therapy and their implications for the therapeutic process are examined as well as other essential areas such as the four dimensions of the therapeutic process; the client-therapist dialogue; overcoming resistances in therapy; and therapeutic methods, illustrated by a detailed case presentation and discussion of contextual work with marriage. Presenting a remarkably effective system of psychotherapy |
| Notes |
Spine title: Between give & take |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-426) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Contextual therapy.
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Family Therapy
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Couples & Family.
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Contextual therapy
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Gezinstherapie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krasner, Barbara R., 1933-
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| ISBN |
9781134845187 |
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1134845189 |
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