Synopsis
Attachment-based Practice with Adults: The Interviewing Guide is a practical tool for enhancing attachment-based practice with adults by understanding key ‘discourse markers’ used by clients in therapeutic interviews, and guiding practitioners to respond in appropriate, constructive ways. Integrated within the first edition of Attachment-based Practice with Adults but available separately for the second edition, the guide helps therapeutic practitioners to consider the implications of discourse – and offers a wide range of ideas for how to respond in ways that help clients to become more coherent and integrated and promote positive change.
After introducing different forms of human memory and exploring how they impact on thoughts and behaviour, the central section of The Interviewing Guide allows readers to see how the three core attachment strategies described in the main Attachment-based Practice with Adults, Second Edition resource (‘distancing’, ‘preoccupied’ and ‘balanced’), are typically expressed in verbal and non-verbal communication. Reproducible marking sheets allow readers to keep a log of interviews they conduct, increasing their familiarity and confidence with patterns of discourse, their underlying functions and the most effective and helpful ways in which therapists can contribute and respond.
About the Author
CLARK BAIM is a psychodrama psychotherapist working with the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and a registered senior trainer with the British Psychodrama Association. He is co-director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, a psychotherapy training organisation, and Change Point Ltd, a training provider in criminal justice, mental health and social care settings. A native of Chicago and graduate of Williams College, Massachusetts, Clark moved to the UK in 1987 to establish and serve as the first director of Geese Theatre UK, a company using applied drama in prisons and probation. He has 20 years of experience as a group facilitator and trainer in the UK and around the world.
TONY MORRISON was a leading figure in the field of social care, particularly respected for his work on supervision, staff development and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. After completing his training in 1977, he worked as a probation officer with Greater Manchester Probation Service before joining the NSPCC Special Unit in Rochdale, where he and colleagues were instrumental in developing an assessment framework used in child protection. He became an independent trainer and consultant in 1989. At a time when treatment for sexual offenders was only just developing in the UK, he was the co-founder and first chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers. He was made an MBE in 1998 in recognition of his efforts in creating a network to support and develop professionals undertaking this challenging work. Tony died suddenly in 2010.
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