Tales from family therapy : life-changing clinical experiences / edited by Frank N. Thomas and Thorana S. Nelson.
Contributor(s): Thomas, Frank N
| Nelson, Thorana Strever.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Haworth marriage and the family.Publisher: New York ; London : Haworth Press, 1998Description: xxvi, 307 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0789000652 ; 078900450X .Subject(s): Family psychotherapy -- Case studies | Life change eventsDDC classification: 616.89156 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 616.89156 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00082781 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists, psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how they've learned that often the clients know more than they do! As you will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the top-notch and most innovative theories in the world won't help a client in distress.
Tales from Family Therapy isn't just about therapists learning a lesson or two from their clients. It's about compassion, healing, being taken by surprise, thinking on your toes, and encouraging people to believe in their strengths--not just their weaknesses. These stories represent to the authors some of the most special, most rewarding, and most puzzling moments in all their years of therapy. They invite you to share in their recollections and discussions of: the power of speaking accepting, respecting, and working with the realities clients bring the importance of first impressions in counseling how personal narratives develop through relationship coloring outside the lines of the dominant culture helping clients determine when rocking the boat is needed listening to your clients and not just your theories developing the self-of-therapist In the therapy room anything can happen, and as Tales from Family Therapy shows, anything does. Graduate students, counselors, licensed therapists, family educators, and family sciences professionals, as well as lay readers, will find this insightful book a helpful forum where the struggles, doubts, and triumphs of psychotherapy are revealed to encourage and inspire those who participate in the therapeutic process.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Therapy with families -- Courting the unknown in a cross-cultural context / Jonathan Wilks -- A game of snakes-and-ladders / Brian Cade -- From not knowing, to knowing, to not knowing, to shared knowing / Marjorie Roberts -- Interesting moments in psychotherapy / Joellyn L. Ross -- Hysterical or historical? / Sally A. St. George -- Clients do the craziest things ... Like prove therapists wrong / Shannon B. Dermer -- The courtship of Eddie's grandfather / Daniel Wulff -- Therapy with couples -- A healing ritual for pseudocyesis / Karl Tomm -- You are what you heat or why every couple should remodel a home / Victor Nelson -- "Will somebody stop me?" / Catherine E. Ford Sori -- When lightning strikes a therapist / David C. Dollahite -- Therapy with children -- The first gift / Bruce P. Kuehl -- I gave at the office / Lisa Aronson Fontes -- Perdi Mi Perrito / Lucille Marmolejo Romeo -- Rules with be made and broken / James Morris -- Humor in therapy -- Open mouth, insert foot: two tales of dumb mistakes by experienced (?) family therapists / Joseph L. Wetchler, Jerome Bercik -- Some things you just can't ignore / Frank N. Thomas, Kent Slayton -- A new approach to suicidal patients / Edward J. Weiner -- First impressions: doctor, you are human / Donald K. Granvold -- Help me rock the boat / Thorana S. Nelson -- Behind and beyond a locked door / Marjorie Roberts -- Therapy with medical issues, death and dying -- Standing on her own two feet: relying on our clients rather than our theories / Michael Durrant -- Living with dying: stories of working with dying patients and their families / Kristin A. Wright -- The strength to swallow death / Douglas G. Flemons -- John: Lessons in caring / Jenny Speice, Steven L. Barnett -- When you are searching for a miracle, always get a second opinion / Linda Metcalf -- Remarkable clients - Three hundred pennies / Jamie Raser -- The courage to fly / Debra W. Smith -- "I'm exercising as fast as I can!" Driving Missy Crazy / Frank N. Thomas -- The lesson of courage / Tina M. Timm -- Act III: a continuing story / Monica Scamardo, Carol Williams -- Therapy with difficult cases -- Understanding the sandwich man / Scott D. Miller -- Voices of wisdom: the reality of delusions and the usefulness of hallucinations / J. Scott Fraser -- A bitter pill / Phoebe Snover Prosky -- The extra mile: therapy in a truck shop / Adrian Blow -- The jockey who couldn't frown / A. Elaine Crnkovic, Robert L. DelCampo -- How Caron kept her feet moving / Silvia Echevarria Rafuls -- Developing the self of the therapist -- Coloring within the lines: the tale of a buddhist, lesbian family therapy professor / Janet L. Osborn -- The kaleidoscope of a retiree / Grace Luther -- Counseling your parents / Howard W. Stone -- Trapped in groundhog day / Rudy Buckman -- Ben's revenge: portrait on one therapy process / Leslye King Mize -- Collaboration with clients -- Stories that touch us / Geddes Macallan -- Alcohol - I somehow remember ... / Jurgen Hargens, "Mrs Green" -- Achelra and the big experiment: a story of collaboration and connection with a scared eleven-year-old / Susan B. Levin -- Learning and supervision -- A blessing / Howard W. Stone -- A trilogy of changes initiated by the amazing brainiac / Shelley Green, Justyna Ford, Kathleen M. Rhodes -- The tale of the ripple / Mallika Ruth Samuel -- What do you see if you look into that word? / Tom Andersen -- It's show time! / Raeline M. Nobles -- Resisting resistance, or a lesson on cooperating (and writing) / Jurgen Hargens -- All depends on your perspective / Janet L. Osborn, Laurie B. Levine -- The expert interview / Jamie Raser.