Counseling and Psychotherapy An Integrated, Individual Psychology Approach

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Dinkmeyer and Sperry have again created a highly usable text for theories and techniques classes. It gives students a concrete approach that is not limited to Adlerian psychology. The Third Edition features new chapters on brief, health and psychoeducational counseling and expands coverage of marriage and family counseling into two complete chapters, including many CACREP-related competencies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Theory (p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Overview (p. 3)
• A Brief Biography (p. 3)
• Adler's Legacy (p. 4)
• Rudolf Dreikurs (p. 5)
• Adler, A Man Ahead of His Time (p. 5)
• From Autocracy to Democracy (p. 6)
• Current Status (p. 7)
• References (p. 7)
• Chapter 2 Adlerian Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapy Systems: Integrative Themes (p. 9)
• Therapeutic Focus (p. 16)
• Psychodynamic Perspectives (p. 16)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (p. 18)
• Systems Perspectives (p. 19)
• Experiential Perspectives (p. 19)
• Therapeutic Relationship (p. 19)
• Psychodynamic Perspectives (p. 19)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (p. 20)
• Systems Perspectives (p. 21)
• Experiential Perspectives (p. 21)
• Therapeutic Change (p. 21)
• Psychodynamic Perspective (p. 22)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective (p. 22)
• Experiential Perspective (p. 23)
• Systemic Perspective (p. 23)
• Concluding Comments (p. 23)
• References (p. 24)
• Chapter 3 Personality Development (p. 27)
• Influences on the Developing Personality (p. 28)
• Genetic Factors (p. 28)
• Constitutional Factors (p. 29)
• Cultural Factors (p. 29)
• Prenatal and Perinatal Factors (p. 29)
• Family Influence (p. 30)
• Early Experiences (p. 33)
• Impasses (p. 33)
• The Lifestyle (p. 33)
• The Private Logic (p. 34)
• The Life Plan (p. 35)
• The Fictional Goal (p. 35)
• Development of the Lifestyle (p. 36)
• Lifestyle and Counseling (p. 37)
• References (p. 38)
• Chapter 4 Psychopathology (p. 39)
• Adlerian Views of Psychopathology (p. 39)
• The Basic Theory (p. 39)
• Developments in the Theory (p. 41)
• Classification Systems: Adlerian and DSM-IV (p. 42)
• Integrating the Five Axis System into an Adlerian Case Formulation (p. 44)
• Common Manifestations of Psychopathology (p. 45)
• Anxiety Disorders (p. 46)
• Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depression) (p. 47)
• Schizophrenia (p. 48)
• Depressive Disorders (p. 50)
• Antisocial Personality Disorder (p. 51)
• Addictive Disorder: Alcohol, Drugs, and Sex (p. 52)
• Borderline Personality Disorder (p. 54)
• References (p. 55)
• Part 2 Skills and Strategies (p. 57)
• Chapter 5 Analysis and Assessment (p. 59)
• Principles of Adlerian Counseling (p. 59)
• Socioteleological Orientation (p. 59)
• People Are Creative, Decision-Making Beings (p. 60)
• The Goals of Adlerian Counseling (p. 61)
• Establishing an Empathic Relationship (p. 61)
• Understanding Beliefs and Feelings, Motives and Goals (p. 62)
• Deveoping Insight into Mistaken Goals and Self-Defeating Behaviors (p. 65)
• Seeing Alternatives and Making New Choices (p. 65)
• Getting Started (p. 66)
• The Effective Helping Relationship (p. 67)
• Motives and Expectations (p. 67)
• Ingredients (p. 70)
• The Helper's Perceptual Organization (p. 71)
• The Adlerian Counselor (p. 72)
• Characteristics (p. 72)
• References (p. 74)
• Chapter 6 Psychotherapeutic Interventions (p. 75)
• The Relationship (p. 75)
• Mutual Trust and Respect (p. 76)
• Attending Behavior and Attentive Listening (p. 76)
• Goal Alignment (p. 77)
• Reflection of Feelings and Empathic Understanding (p. 78)
• Productive Use of Silence (p. 78)
• Nonverbal Communication (p. 79)
• Tentative Hypotheses and Encouragement (p. 80)
• Disturbances That May Interfere with the Relationship (p. 81)
• Analysis and Assessment (p. 83)
• Paraphrasing (p. 84)
• Priorities and Lifestyle Scale Themes (p. 84)
• Pinpointing the Priority (p. 86)
• BASIS-A (p. 87)
• Dealing Effectively with Priorities and Lifestyle Themes (p. 87)
• Interpretation (p. 89)
• "The Question" (p. 89)
• Formulation of the Lifestyle (p. 89)
• Analysis of the Family Constellation (p. 90)
• Interpretation of Early Recollections (p. 92)
• Identification of the Basic Mistakes (p. 95)
• Integration and Summary (p. 96)
• Insight (p. 98)
• Method of Presentation (p. 99)
• Goals (p. 100)
• Results (p. 101)
• Reorientation (p. 101)
• Establishing Realistic Goals (p. 102)
• Problem Solving and Decision Making (p. 102)
• Seeing New and More Functional Alternatives (p. 103)
• Specific Strategies (p. 104)
• References (p. 109)
• Chapter 7 Psychoeducation and Psychoeductional Interventions (p. 111)
• The Psychoeducational Model (p. 112)
• What Is Psychoeducation? (p. 112)
• Working with Families (p. 113)
• Adler's Work with Families (p. 114)
• Rationale for Parent Education (p. 114)
• Basic Adlerian Theory for Parent Education (p. 115)
• The Four Goals of Misbehavior (p. 115)
• Books for Parent Groups (p. 117)
• Parent C-Groups (p. 118)
• Starting Groups (p. 119)
• Group-Leadership Skills (p. 119)
• Group Stages (p. 120)
• Additional Psychoeducation Materials (p. 121)
• Psychoeducation in the Treatment of Couples (p. 121)
• The Relationship between PE and Marital Therapy (p. 122)
• The Effectiveness of PE with Couples (p. 122)
• Critiques of PE (p. 123)
• References (p. 123)
• Part 3 Applications (p. 125)
• Chapter 8 Children and Adolescents (p. 127)
• Counseling Young Children (p. 128)
• Counseling Older Children (p. 130)
• Establishing a Relationship with Children (p. 131)
• Confrontation in Counseling (p. 132)
• Adlerian Techniques Adapted to Children (p. 133)
• Paradoxical Intention (p. 133)
• Acting as If (p. 133)
• Counseling Adolescents (p. 133)
• Life Tasks (p. 134)
• Symptom Bearers and Identified Patients (p. 135)
• Drug Use (p. 135)
• Sexual Behaviors (p. 136)
• School-Related Problems (p. 136)
• The Adolescent's Parents (p. 137)
• Counseling College Students (p. 138)
• Influencing Children and Adolescents through Teachers (p. 139)
• Common Mistaken Assumptions about Human Behavior (p. 139)
• Applicable Adlerian Principles (p. 140)
• Rules for Successful Teacher-Student Relationships (p. 141)
• Consulting with the Individual Teacher (p. 141)
• Systematic Procedure for Collecting Data (p. 142)
• Anecdotes (p. 142)
• Exploring Beliefs (p. 143)
• Tuning in to Feelings (p. 144)
• Finding Alternatives (p. 144)
• Recommendations for Changes in the Classroom (p. 144)
• Working with Teachers in Groups (p. 145)
• Rationale (p. 145)
• Organization of the Group (p. 145)
• Content (p. 146)
• The Teacher Group in Action (p. 147)
• Summary (p. 149)
• References (p. 149)
• Chapter 9 Counseling and Psychotherapy with the Elderly (p. 151)
• The Challenge of Counseling the Elderly (p. 152)
• Social Interest, Community Feeling, and the Elderly (p. 152)
• Therapeutic Issues Unique to the Elderly: The Life Tasks (p. 152)
• Counseling and Consulting with the Elderly (p. 153)
• Relationship (p. 154)
• Assessment (p. 154)
• Reorientation (p. 156)
• Specific Techniques (p. 157)
• Geriatric Psychotherapy (p. 158)
• Concluding Comments (p. 160)
• Recommended Readings (p. 160)
• References (p. 161)
• Chapter 10 Health Counseling (p. 163)
• Issues in Health Counseling (p. 164)
• An Adlerian Approach to Health Counseling (p. 165)
• Relationship (p. 167)
• Reorientation (p. 170)
• The Practice of Health Counseling (p. 173)
• References (p. 174)
• Chapter 11 Group Counseling and Therapy (p. 175)
• History (p. 175)
• The Nature of the Group Process (p. 176)
• Group Interaction (p. 177)
• Interpersonal Learning (p. 178)
• Progress in the Group (p. 178)
• The Social Climate of Therapeutic Groups (p. 179)
• Conceptual Foundations of Therapeutic Groups (p. 180)
• Therapeutic Forces of the Group Setting (p. 180)
• Acceptance (p. 181)
• Altruism (p. 181)
• Transference (p. 181)
• Spectator Therapy (p. 181)
• Universalization (p. 182)
• Feedback (p. 182)
• Ventilation (p. 182)
• Reality Testing (p. 182)
• Interaction (p. 183)
• Group Cohesiveness (p. 183)
• The Role of the Group Leader (p. 183)
• Group Leadership Competencies (p. 184)
• Structuring the Group and Communicating Its Purpose (p. 185)
• Using Interaction Exercises (p. 186)
• Universalizing (p. 187)
• Dealing with the Here-and-Now Interaction (p. 188)
• Linking (p. 189)
• Confronting (p. 190)
• Blocking (p. 191)
• Encouraging and Focusing on Assets and Positive Feedback (p. 192)
• Facilitating Participation by Confronting Nonverbal Clues (p. 193)
• Facilitating I-Messages (p. 194)
• Paraphrasing and Clarifying to Stimulate Reality Testing (p. 195)
• Offering Feedback (p. 196)
• Formulating Tentative Hypotheses (p. 197)
• Setting Tasks and Getting Commitment (p. 198)
• Capping and Summarizing (p. 199)
• Group Methods (p. 201)
• Lifestyle Groups (p. 201)
• Action Therapy (p. 203)
• Basic Concepts and Tactics (p. 204)
• Techniques (p. 204)
• Encouragement Labs (p. 206)
• Becoming a Positive, Encouraging Person (p. 207)
• Social Therapy (p. 208)
• Teleoanalysis: Understanding Self, Others, and the Purposes of Behavior (p. 210)
• References (p. 211)
• Chapter 12 Brief Therapy and Managed Care (p. 213)
• Managed Care and Brief Therapy (p. 214)
• Chapter Overview (p. 214)
• Long-Term Psychotherapy, Brief Therapy, and Planned Short-Term Psychotherapy (p. 215)
• The Psychodynamic Orientation to Brief Therapy (p. 216)
• The Cognitive-Behavioral Orientation to Brief Therapy (p. 220)
• Weiss and Jacobson's Brief Behavioral Marital Therapy (p. 221)
• The Systems Orientation (p. 222)
• Brief Family Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy (p. 223)
• Experiential Orientation to Brief Therapy (p. 224)
• Budman Brief Interpersonal-Developmental-Experiential Therapy (p. 224)
• The Adlerian Approach to Brief Therapy (p. 225)
• Comparative Analysis of Nine Brief Therapy Approaches (p. 227)
• Summary (p. 230)
• References (p. 240)
• Chapter 13 Family Therapy (p. 243)
• Adlerian Family Therapy and Adlerian Family Counseling (p. 244)
• Integrative Concepts in Family Therapy (p. 245)
• Goals of Adlerian Family Therapy (p. 247)
• The Process of Adlerian Family Therapy (p. 248)
• Stages of Family Therapy (p. 249)
• Stage 1 Establishing the Relationship (p. 249)
• Stage 2 Understanding the Family: Assessment (p. 250)
• Stage 3 Reeducation and Reorientation (p. 251)
• Techniques in Adlerian Family Therapy (p. 252)
• Confrontation of the Private Logic and Beliefs (p. 252)
• Paradoxical Intention (p. 252)
• Role Reversal (p. 253)
• Resistance and Goal Alignment (p. 253)
• Setting Tasks and Getting Commitment (p. 253)
• Summarizing (p. 253)
• Resistance (p. 253)
• The Role of Absent Members (p. 254)
• Multiple Therapy (p. 254)
• Psychoeducational Interventions (p. 256)
• References (p. 256)
• Chapter 14 Marital and Couples Therapy (p. 259)
• The Intimate Relationship as a System (p. 260)
• Couples Therapy (p. 261)
• Attraction and Priorities: Choice of Partners (p. 261)
• Stage 1 Establishing a Therapeutic Relationship (p. 263)
• Stage 2 Understanding the Couple (p. 266)
• Stage 3 Reorientation and Reeducation (p. 269)
• Meshing the Lifestyles (p. 269)
• Mini-Lifestyles (p. 272)
• Resolving Conflict in Intimate Relationships (p. 272)
• Multiple Therapy (p. 274)
• Technical Questions (p. 275)
• Separation (p. 275)
• Individual and Family Therapy (p. 276)
• The Absent Partner (p. 276)
• Children (p. 277)
• Other Parties (p. 278)
• Frequency and Length of Therapy (p. 278)
• Marital History (p. 279)
• Sexual Problems (p. 279)
• Divorce and Divorce Mediation (p. 280)
• Additional Strategies in Couples Therapy (p. 280)
• The Marriage Conference (p. 280)
• Psychoeducational Interventions (p. 281)
• Psychodrama (p. 281)
• Couples Group Therapy (p. 282)
• Homework (p. 282)
• Paradoxical Intention (p. 282)
• Reframing (p. 283)
• References (p. 283)
• Appendix A Guide for Initial Interviews and Assessments (p. 285)
• Appendix B Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy Competencies (p. 301)
• Appendix C The Lifestyle Scale (p. 303)
• Author Index (p. 307)
• Subject Index (p. 311)