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Some Stories are Better than Others - Doing What Works in Brief Therapy and Managed Care

English · Hardback

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There are countless stories that we deal with each day. There are the stories that we easily recognize as such: the novels we read, the movies we see, but there are may other more essential stories. These are the stories that we use to explain what happened to us twenty years ago or last week, those we use to explain why the world works the way it does, and those that we sue to "fix" the world when it doesn't work the way other stories said it should. And as the author points out in this collection of essays and interviews, some of these stories are better than others. This book is an investigation into which might be the better stories and how they can help clients reach their goals in therapy.
The book contains fifteen essays and interviews written or co-written by Michael Hoyt. The collection represents Dr. Hoyt's recent thinking on helping clients with brief, future-oriented therapeutic approaches. Exploring a variety of post-modern, social constructionist, and solution-focused ideas in therapy, these essays try to offer ideas and reflections on doing what works to improve mental health. They also address the theoretical, practical, and ethical challenges produces by the managed care environment, giving the reader guidance in an area that is often confusing and, at times, alarming. Drawing on sports metaphors, literature, and movies, Dr. Hoyt offers a profound look at many of brief therapy's most pressing problems in an accessible package. It's depth of analysis, comprehensive coverage of brief therapy, and cutting-edge theory of future-oriented therapeutic approaches makes this collection a vital resource for all mental health professionals wrestling with time-limitedtreatment options in or out of managed care.

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1: It's Not My Therapy-It's the Client's Therapy; 2: A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (With Footnotes for Baseball Fans); 3: Some Stories Are Better Than Others; 4: Likely Future Trends and Attendant Ethical Concerns Regarding Managed Mental Health Care; 5: Dilemmas of Postmodern Practice Under Managed Care and Some Pragmatics for Increasing the Likelihood of Treatment Authorization; 6: Interview I: Brief Therapy and Managed Care; 7: Interview II: Autologue: Reflections on Brief Therapy, Social Constructionism, and Managed Care; 8: Solution-Focused Couple Therapy: Helping Clients Construct Self-Fulfilling Realities; 9: Solution-ku; 10: A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings; 11: What Can We Learn From Milton Erickson's Therapeutic Failures?; 12: Unmuddying the Waters: A "Common Ground" Conference; 13: The Joy of Narrative: An Exercise for Learning From Our Internalized Clients; 14: Stage-Appropriate Change-Oriented Brief Therapy Strategies; 15: The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say "When"

About the author

Michael F. Hoyt

Summary

Exploring a variety of post-modern, social constructionist, and solution-focused ideas in therapy, these essays try to offer ideas and reflections on doing what works to improve mental health.

Product details

Authors Michael F. Hoyt, Hoyt Michael F.
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2018
 
EAN 9781583910412
ISBN 978-1-58391-041-2
No. of pages 338
Weight 790 g
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions
Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology

PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy

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