The Paradox of Mental Health - Toward Systemic and Social Constructionist Therapies

Uses systemic theories to challenge how the medical model is used to treat mental illness today, encouraging practitioners to embrace uncertainty and curiosity and to help clients develop a conscious philosophical outlook.

List of contents

Foreword by Benjamin J. Evans, Johnny Faulkner, and Amy Smith
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Paradoxes of Mental Health/Illness: Philosophy and Theory
Chapter 1: The Paradox of Mental Health: On the Limits of Living Consciously
Chapter 2: Believing is Seeing: Exploring the Limits of Knowing
Chapter 3: Before the Beginning
Chapter 4: Contributions from Social Science and Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 5: On the Clinical Bias
Chapter 6: Conceptual Bites in Summary of the Paradox
Chapter 7: Wondering
Part II: Systemic and Social Constructionist Concepts for Therapy
Chapter 8: About Systems Theory, Constructivism, and Social Constructionism.
Chapter 9: Requiem for Systemic Marital and Family Therapy
Chapter 10: The Ecosystemic Story: Implications for Therapists
Chapter 11: Reflections on Values in Systems Theory and Social Constructionism
Chapter 12: A Story about Systemic and Social Constructionist Therapy
Chapter 13: Afterword
References
Index
About the Authors

Product details

• Authors: Becvar Dorothy Stroh, Becvar Raphael J., Lynne V. Reif
• Assisted by: Evans Benjamin J. (Foreword), Johnny Faulkner (Foreword), Amy Smith (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9798881802233
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0223-3
• Illustrations: 1 Table
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: couples & families, Sociology: family & relationships, Psychotherapy: counselling