Advanced Skills and Interventions in Therapeutic Counseling
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Overview
"Advanced Skills and Interventions in Therapeutic Counselling" is written for advanced students
and professionals. It provides the reader with an understanding of the personality, and reviews
fundamentals of the counselling process, such as the set up of the counselling room, attending
behaviour, and advanced active listening skills. It gives the reader a means to assess clients
so the direction of therapy is clear, and it provides illustrations for each general direction
of the therapeutic process.
This book takes an integrated approach to therapeutic counseling, from personality theory, to applying
that theory in assessing client problems, to the techniques to intervene. The counselling procedures presented
allow the counselor to determine the origin of unwanted emotions and behaviors without psychodynamic interpretation
and the interventions are designed to address cause for these concerns.
There is a cause for every unwanted emotion or reaction. This book is about understanding these causes
and facilitating change.
Product Details
ISBN | 978-184-5900-17-5 |
Publisher | Crown House Publishing |
Format | Paperback |
Author | Gordon Emmerson, PhD |
Dimensions | 9.68 (h) x 7.44 (w) x 0.5 (d) inches |
Pages | 225 |
Weight | 450 grammes |
Contents
Chapter 1 : Therapeutic counseling and ethics
What is therapeutic counseling
Ethical issues
The ethical person
Confidentiality
Maintaining boundaries in therapy
Dual relationships
Duty of care
Chapter 2 : Theoretical orientation
Ego states
Development of ego-state therapy
Ego-state personality theory
The origin of ego states
The executive state
Surface and underlying states
Ego states and alters
The unconscious
Introjects
Later development of ego states
Pathology and ego states
Malevolent ego states
Ego states and physiology
Overview of ego-state personality theory
Ego-state theory and techniques in the context of other psychotherapies
The psychodynamic stream
The cognitive behavioral stream
The phenomenological stream
Role of ego-state theory in counseling
Chapter 3 : Basic counseling skills and techniques
Attending
Attire
Preparation of the room
Body language and voice tone
Interest shown to the client
Maintaining focus in the client's world
Active listening
Benefits of active listening
Good active listening
Starting and ending a session
Beginning the session
Bringing the session to close
the last session
Chapter 4 : Advanced counseling skills and techniques
Accessing ego states
Naming ego states
Speak respecfully to all states
When working with ego states
Accessing ego states—a review
Working with introjects
Speaking to an introject
Speaking as an introject
How the counselor can facilitate conversations with introjects
Speaking to the introject of a deceased person
Speaking to the introject of a fetus
Speaking to the introject of a perpetrator
Bridging from the unwanted symptom to the cause of the problem
Resolving a trauma
Chapter 5 : Assessing the client's problem
DSM-IV-TR diagnosis
The counseling assessment method
Chapter 6 : Internal dissent : Cognitive dissonance
Helping the client resolve internal dissent
Get a clear understanding of the division and of the states involved
Make clear which state will sit in each chair
Listen to everything each state has to say
Help each state to see the value of both states
Suggest how nice it would be to have the respect of the other state
Negotiate a way the states can work together
Suggest that the states communicate directly with each other
Thank each state for working together to achieve a solution
Debrief with the client
Chapter 7 : Difficulty responding to a situational concern
Current-context-situational concern
Unresolved-issues-situational concern : truama resolution
Abreactions
Chapter 8 : Application of skills
Crisis intervention
What are the elements of the effective crisis intervention?
When the crisis trauma does not involve another person
Working with grief and loss
Grieving loss
Grieving future loss
Dealing with anger
The problem with anger that is not expressed
The problem with anger that is expressed inappropriately
Assertive behavior
Understanding anger
Anger therapy techniques
Relationship issues
Dealing with depression
Antidepressant medication
Step in working with the depressed client
Working with addictions and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Gambling
Drug addiction
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Self-harming behavior
Smoking
Compulsive eating
What addictions have in common
Techniques for working with clients with addictive behavior
Nonaddictive eating and smoking problems
Dealing with sexual-abuse issues
Do not minimize or maximize the problem
Techniques for working with the sexually abused client
Dealing with suicidal ideation
Understanding the suicidal client
Techniques to assist the client through the critical period of suicidal ideation
Techniques to assist the client with the issues that brought on the suicidal ideation
What if one of your clients commits suicide?
Chapter 9 : More training for difficult circumstances
Examples of dialogue with ego states
When the client has diffculty naming an ego state
When the client has diffculty finding an ego state that can help another state
Accessing the desired state
When the client is reluctant to speak to an empty chair
When the client does not speak directly to the introject in the empty chair
An important issues
Spontaneous hypnosis
Final thoughts
About the Author
Dr Gordon Emmerson is an Honorary Fellow in the school of psychology at Victoria University, Melbourne.
He is the author of the books 'Ego State Therapy' (2003, 2007, 2010), 'Advanced Techniques in Therapeutic
Counselling' (2006, Crown House), and 'Healthy Parts Happy Self' (2012). He authored Ego State Personality
Theory (2011), and has developed techniques for working with many psychological conditions.
His conceptualisation of Vaded Ego States has defined how to work with addictions, OCD and trauma.
As a registered psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society, he has published
a number of articles on Ego State Therapy and has conducted and published clinical research on its
efficacy. Dr Emmerson has conducted numerous ego state workshops in Australia, South Africa, Germany,
the UK and in the US, and he makes keynote conference and convention addresses on the therapy.
He provides Foundation and Clinical Qualification training in Ego State Therapy.