A handbook of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy /
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| Author / Creator: | Rawson, Penny. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Karnac, 2005. |
| Description: | xxiii, 195 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5822048 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Quick reference note
- Counselling continuum
- Aims of the Book
- Chapter 1.
- What is brief psychodynamic psychotherapy?
- An overview
- Quick reference notes
- Focal and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Suitability of client
- Counter indications to suitability of client for short-term therapy
- Selection of patients
- Motivation
- Basic principles of focal and short-term psychotherapy
- Holmes-Rahe scale
- Article 'Focal and short-term psychotherapy is a treatment of choice' (Rawson, 1992)
- Chapter 2.
- Focus
- Quick reference notes
- Finding the focus
- Progressive diagram of question areas inspired by the Heimler Social Functioning concept
- Chapter 3.
- The importance of the first session
- Quick reference notes
- Initial interview in short-term focal therapy
- Aims of initial interview
- Table 1: Important aspects of the first session as seen from the research case work (Rawson, 2002)
- Chapter 4.
- Jointly agreed strategic focus: contract part I
- Quick reference notes
- Fixing the focus
- Holding the focus
- The strategic focus
- Homework: Aspects of brief therapy to practise
- Questions for the therapist to think about in relation to the focus
- Chapter 5.
- Jointly agreed time scale: contract part II
- Quick reference notes
- Time limited psychotherapy
- The dynamics of the deadline
- Article: 'By mutual arrangement' (Rawson, 1995)
- Chapter 6.
- Flexibility
- Quick reference notes
- Body memory exercise
- Flexibility re skills used by the therapist
- Chapter 7.
- Activity
- Quick reference notes
- Activity
- Working with the client - giving them the tools: homework
- Chapter 8.
- Techniques
- Chapter 9.
- Endings
- Quick reference notes
- Coping with loss: the end from the beginning
- Loss for the client
- Loss for the therapist in short-term work
- Homework
- Chapter 10.
- Review and what next?
- Quick reference notes
- Letters to the editor: 'Brief therapy' (Rawson, 1999a)
- 'Supervision nonsense' (Rawson, 2003)
- Article: 'Therapy for the 21st Century' (Rawson 1999b)
- Chapter 11.
- Conclusion
- Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy: Summary of the basics
- References and Bibliography
- Index
