Therapeutic Change with Difficult Clients (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 2025
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Paperback. Now in its second edition, Therapeutic Change with Difficult Clients describes a common factors model for understanding and activating the process of change with challenging clients. For therapists, the most difficult clients to treat are often those who have little interest in change. Whether they believe that change is a waste of time, or a threat to their personal freedom or sense of being, the difficulty of treating such clients reveals the limits of typical approaches to psychotherapy. A thorough understanding of the true nature therapeutic change is often the most important step toward improving psychotherapy effectiveness. The CHANGES model, which has been significantly expanded and updated since the first edition of this book, is founded on the seven precursors of change, which are identified, assessed, and activated in the context of therapeutic encounters. The authors examine the capacities of individuals to generate therapeutic change, identify the barriers to change, and discuss the power of therapists to catalyze the change process using a variety of well established techniques. In addition to updated supporting literature, the authors discuss recent advances in neuroscience and the cognitive sciences, as well as new developments in the interpersonal aspects of therapeutic engagement. A common factors approach confronts resistance in challenging clients by using the CHANGES model to transform barriers into growth through seven key precursors. Updated techniques, neuroscience insights, and cognitive advances deepen the understanding of activating therapeutic change and engagement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Therapeutic Change with Difficult Clients (Paperback)
- Author
- Brett D. Wilkinson
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association, Washington DC
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1433843161
- ISBN 13
- 9781433843167
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
For therapists the most difficult clients to treat are often those who have little interest in change. Whether they believe that change is a waste of time or a threat to their personal freedom or sense of being the difficulty of treating such clients reveals the limits of typical approaches to psychotherapy. A thorough understanding of the true nature therapeutic change is often the most important step toward improving psychotherapy effectiveness.
The CHANGES model which has been significantly expanded and updated since the first edition of this book is founded on the seven precursors of change which are identified assessed and activated in the context of therapeutic encounters. The authors examine the capacities of individuals to generate therapeutic change identify the barriers to change and discuss the power of therapists to catalyze the change process using a variety of well established techniques. In addition to updated supporting literature the authors discuss recent advances in neuroscience and the cognitive sciences as well as new developments in the interpersonal aspects of therapeutic engagement.
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About the Author
Brett Wilkinson, PhD, is an associate professor of counselor education at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) and a licensed mental health counselor in private practice working with individuals, couples, and families. He is editor-in-chief of the ACA's Journal of Humanistic Counseling and founding director of the PFW Institute for Counseling Research, which designs clinical practice and training studies in counseling and psychotherapy. He provides consultations and trainings on the CHANGES Model, clinical-reflective supervision, cognitive complexity, and embodied mindfulness to community agencies, school systems, and university programs.
Fred J. Hanna, PhD, is a professor and codesigner of the PhD Program in Counseling at Adler University, in Chicago. He was previously a senior faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University where he taught graduate counseling courses for 25 years, including 11 years full time, leaving as a full professor. Fred has served as a consultant and trainer to the medical, mental health, corrections, business, and education communities, including such places as the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, the Fort Peck Sioux Reservation in Montana, the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and a wide variety of school systems, community agencies, prisons, and criminal justice settings across the United States.
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