Therapy with difficult clients : using the precursors model to awaken change /

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Author / Creator:	Hanna, Fred J.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Impasse (Psychotherapy) Attitude change. Attitude change. Impasse (Psychotherapy) Attitude. Psychotherapy. Professional-Patient Relations. Set, Psychology. Interpersonal Relations. Behavioral Disciplines and Activities. Delivery of Health Care. Learning. Psychology, Social. Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation. Psychiatry and Psychology. Mental Processes. Psychological Phenomena and Processes. Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms. Electronic Books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12377313

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Other authors / contributors:	American Psychological Association.
ISBN:	1557987939 9781557987938
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and indexes. English. Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. Print version record.
Summary:	This book offers an approach to working with clients who simply do not seem to change. Therapeutic change, in the author's view, hinges on the presence of seven precursors, or harbingers, of change: hope, awareness, a sense of necessity to change, the willingness to experience anxiety or difficulty, confronting issues, the exertion of will or effort, and the presence of social support. The presence of these precursors bodes well for a client no matter what the therapist's theoretical orientation. The converse is also true: their absence or deficiency close the relationship. The good news for any therapist who has ever encountered a client who believes change is frightening, unattainable, or a waste of time is that the obstacles are not insurmountable. In this practical guide, the author offers a tool for assessing the readiness for change in clients and in therapists. He offers an abundance of strategies, examples, and insights for enhancing precursors that are lacking and leveraging those that are present. This model offers invaluable guidance for the stalled client and therapist alike. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Other form:	Therapy with difficult clients (print)

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I.. Understanding Difficult Clients, Therapeutic Change, and Resistance
Chapter 1.. What Makes a Client Difficult?
Chapter 2.. Toward a Model of Change for Difficult Clients
Chapter 3.. The Precursors Model: Skills and Functions of Change
II.. Assessing the Potential for Therapeutic Change
Chapter 4.. Rating Client Change Potential: Using the Precursors Assessment Form
Chapter 5.. Rating Therapist Precursors
III.. Clinical Applications: First Steps
Chapter 6.. Orienting the Relationship Around Change
Chapter 7.. Reducing Therapist Interference and Increasing Therapeutic Wisdom
Chapter 8.. Multicultural and Gender Considerations: A New Adaptation of Cognitive Therapy and a Framework for Empowerment
IV.. Clinical Applications: Implementing and Enhancing the Precursors
Chapter 9.. Instilling a Sense of Necessity
Chapter 10.. Establishing the Willingness or Readiness to Experience Anxiety or Difficulty
Chapter 11.. Cultivating Awareness
Chapter 12.. Enhancing Confronting
Chapter 13.. Increasing Effort or Will Toward Change
Chapter 14.. Building Hope for Change
Chapter 15.. Developing Social Support for Change
V.. Conclusion
Chapter 16.. At the Horizon of Change
Appendix. Characteristics of Wisdom
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author

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