商品簡介
Brief Therapy and Beyond is a collection of client-therapist vignettes of time-sensitive treatment to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth. The stories involve a plot in which characters have experiences and employ imagination to resolve problems over time. From this perspective, therapy can be understood as the purposeful development of a more functional story; “better” stories are those that bring more of what is desired and less of what is not desired. Aesthetics, effects, and ethics are all important. Stories that are well told; that are vivid and eloquent; that involve the generation and resolution of some tension; that see protagonist(s) emerge successfully, perhaps even triumphantly inform and inspire. A “good” story does more than merely relate the evidence of effective therapy; a “good story” invigorate both client and therapist.
作者簡介
Michael Hoyt was staff psychologist at Kaiser Permanente before retiring in 2013 Distinguished Presenter, International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, Denver, Distinguished Continuing Education Speaker, American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL