Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; An illustrative therapy; Part 1 THE DISTINCTIVE THEORETICAL FEATURES OF CPT; 1 Constructing a world; 2 The function of fiction; 3 Personal knowledge; 4 Living on the frontier; 5 Redefining reality; 6 Living in language; 7 Deconstructing the self; 8 Systems within systems: The epigenetic model; 9 Contextualizing disorder; Part 2 THE DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF CPT; 10 Laddering toward core concerns; 11 Mapping social ecologies of meaning using the bow-tie interview; 12 Charting networks of constructs using repertory grids
Summary
Constructivist psychotherapy focuses on the meaning that clients attribute to their world, and the way that this shapes their life to their difficulties. This book provides an explanation of the key features of this approach. It concentrates on the 30 key commitments that distinguish constructivism from other cognitive behavioural perspectives
