Succeeding with Difficult Clients: Applications of Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) - Softcover

Wessler, Richard L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012744470X ISBN 13: 9780127444703

Publisher: Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

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Review

"Wessler, Hankin, and Stern are to be commended for their efforts in addressing the difficult topic of working with difficult clients... In sum, Succeeding with Difficult Clients provides a clear overview of the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal components of CAT designed as a guideline for treatment of personality-disoriented adults." --CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

"The book is easy to read, comprehensible, and very useful in application... This book was very helpful in working with some of my own difficult clients who I found struck in their process of change and a few tips from the book allowed me to adjust my exploration questions, helping to lower resistance and causing the change." --DOODY PUBLICATIONS

From the Back Cover

"I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas.

Succeeding with Difficult Clients is intended to help psychotherapists and mental health professionals treat problem clients. Additionally, it explores the various forms that "difficult" can take, discussing the feelings and thoughts such clients evoke in the therapist and describing how therapists frequently manage and mismanage their feelings during therapy.

Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (CAT) is a departure from conventional cognitive therapies where client motivation is conceptualized in terms of affect and attachment rather than cognitive schemas. Through this dynamic approach, practitioners will be able to integrate CAT techniques into their treatment plans to help them work successfully and confidently with difficult clients as individuals, as couples and in groups. Throughout the book, applications of CAT are illustrated and examined.

Drawing from the authors' extensive experience, Succeeding with Difficult Clients is filled with case illustrations and therapeutic dialogs, presenting a powerful integrative approach to working with clients with personality disorders as well as methods for improving the therapist's understanding and managing of feelings that often impede effective therapy.
|"I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas.

Succeeding with Difficult Clients is intended to help psychotherapists and mental health professionals treat problem clients. Additionally, it explores the various forms that "difficult" can take, discussing the feelings and thoughts such clients evoke in the therapist and describing how therapists frequently manage and mismanage their feelings during therapy.

Cognitive Appraisal Therapy (CAT) is a departure from conventional cognitive therapies where client motivation is conceptualized in terms of affect and attachment rather than cognitive schemas. Through this dynamic approach, practitioners will be able to integrate CAT techniques into their treatment plans to help them work successfully and confidently with difficult clients as individuals, as couples and in groups. Throughout the book, applications of CAT are illustrated and examined.

Drawing from the authors' extensive experience, Succeeding with Difficult Clients is filled with case illustrations and therapeutic dialogs, presenting a powerful integrative approach to working with clients with personality disorders as well as methods for improving the therapist's understanding and managing of feelings that often impede effective therapy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 012744470X
• ISBN 13: 9780127444703
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352