Description
Intentional Intervention in Counseling and Therapy answers three questions: what heals in counseling and therapy and how? What actions in clinical decision making ensure an optimal outcome for the client? And why are some clinicians more successful than others, apparently remaining so over time? Incorporating citations across multiple disciplines, referencing authorities in both CBT and psychodynamic models, and interwoven with composite case material and session transcripts, this book unmasks the dialectic between goals and process in clinical work.
Table of Contents
Preface: The adroit clinicial, neuroscience and the dialectic between goals and process Prologue: Two theses in theory implementation • cognition and discourse in evidence, practice and outcome Part I. Phenomenology of Clinical Decision Making 1. Theory: Observation and construction • evolutionary aggregation and the developmental metamodel 2. Evidence: Physiological operationalization • empathy, countertransference and practice-based evidence 3. Relationship: Mirroring and evolutionary theory • the difference between counseling and therapy 4. Conceptualization: Client personality development and second-order change • signal of the dialectic 5. Treatment: Pathology, adaptation, transference and transition • the environmental call to let go Part II. The Therapist-Self 6. Synthesis: Obviating the client's dilemma • therapeutic communication • The clinician’s cardinal Archetypes Part III. Phenomenology of Clinician Development 7. Transition: From good intentions to intentionality • the beginning clinician and the Feeling-Sensing Style 8. Empathy: Developing clinician emotional intelligence • the Einfühlung group 9. Congruence: Client negative affect and the low experiencing clinician • neurobiology of upholding the dilemma 10. Unconditional positive regard: clinician susceptibility to client disavowal • projective identification and the countertransference group 11. Intentionality: Flow and the good therapist • the final letting go of neediness Epilogue: Working hypothesis for intentional intervention • implications for the education of clinicians Appendix: What Is Your Preferred Style of Helping? Glossary Author Index Subject Index
