Brief Interventions for Radical Change , livre ebook

New Harbinger Publications - D. Strosahl Kirk

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

157 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

Sujets

Sociologie, société et politique

Clinical psychology

Informations

Publié par	New Harbinger Publications
Date de parution	01 janvier 0001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781608823475
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,1968€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

“This book is a must-read not only for ACT therapists with an interest in brief therapy, but for any ACT therapist who wants to improve their efficiency and effectiveness with the model. Low on theory and high on practicality, this book is choc-a-bloc full of new tools and techniques for brief but powerful ACT interventions. You’ll be amazed at how simple and easy it makes the trickier aspects of ACT, such as self-as-context and creative hopelessness. If you want to get better results in less time with more clients, then you need to read this book right now!”
—Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap
“If you are looking for a rapid way to help people reduce their suffering and make positive changes, this book can show you the way. The four questions Strosahl, Robinson, and Gustavsson provide can give you a quick handle both on what’s going on with clients and on how to help them change. A nice variation on the ACT method with some new insights and additions to make it compatible with clients’ and third-party payers’ demands for efficient and effective treatment.”
—Bill O’Hanlon, author of Change 101 , A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy , and The Change Your Life Book
“Brief therapy alert: This book is valuable reading for anyone interested in time-sensitive ‘brief’ therapy. It provides theory, methodology, research evidence, and numerous clinical examples for how to help clients rapidly make significant changes. It is also an excellent introduction to the larger field of acceptance and commitment therapy, offering concepts and techniques that clinicians can adapt to their own practices. Strongly recommended!”
—Michael F. Hoyt, PhD, author of Brief Psychotherapies and Interviews with Brief Therapy
“This book has the wrong title. It should be: Everything You Need to Know Stated Clearly, Free of Jargon and Hype that Will Enable You to Help a Broad and Diverse Range of Clients Effectively and Efficiently. On second thought, Brief Interventions for Radical Change, like the book , is more to the point.”
—Scott D. Miller, PhD, director at the International Center for Clinical Excellence, Cummings professor of behavioral health at Arizona State University, and author of The Heart and Soul of Change
“Strosahl, Gustavsson, and Robinson have written an inspiring book for all clinicians to read and to use in their daily practice. The genius of focused acceptance and commitment therapy is that it not only includes new insights, but it also dispels the myths about brief interventions. This book shows that a focused approach is exactly what many people need to help them recapture a sense of being fully alive.”
—Mark Williams, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford, and coauthor of The Mindful Way Through Depression
“ Brief Interventions for Radical Change is an excellent resource for primary care clinicians wanting to make efficient use of their time with patients. It’s a practical guide for a patient-centered, functional approach, and provides case examples with individuals, couples, and groups.”
—Debra A. Gould, MD, MPH, family physician and coauthor of Real Behavior Change in Primary Care, Improving Patient Outcomes and Increasing Job Satisfaction

Publisher’s Note
This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books
Copyright © 2012 by Kirk Strosahl, Patricia Robinson, and Thomas Gustavsson
New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
5674 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609
www.newharbinger.com
Cover design by Amy Shoup
Acquired by Catharine Meyers
Edited by Jasmine Star
ePub ISBN: 9781608823475
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Strosahl, Kirk, 1950-
Brief interventions for radical behavior change : principles and practice of focused acceptance and commitment therapy / Kirk Strosahl, Thomas Gustavsson, and Patricia Robinson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60882-345-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60882-346-8 (pdf e-book) -- ISBN 978-1-60882-347-5 (epub) 1. Acceptance and commitment therapy. 2. Brief psychotherapy. I. Gustavsson, Thomas. II. Robinson, Patricia A. Ph. D. III. Title.
RC489.A32S77 2012
616.89’147--dc23
2012021389
To all the courageous clients I’ve seen over the years, who have taught me so much about what is humanly possible. Your words of wisdom permeate this book. To my wife and soul mate, Patti, and my three lovely daughters, Regan, Frances, and Joanna. You help keep me in the present moment and call me on it when I’m not there!
—Kirk Strosahl
To Ryland Day, my grandson, and Regan, Ezra, Frances, and Joanna May, my children, with the hope that your walk on the Good Red Road will be one of respect and trust and that your own true north pulls you, again and again.
—Patricia Robinson
This is my first book, and I hope it helps people who are in caregiving roles in all kinds of settings. I would like to thank my coauthors, Kirk and Patti, for being such great teammates, and my teachers, supervisors, colleagues, and clients over the years, who have taught me so much. I also extend gratitude to Cecilia, for many years of companionship and for being a friend; to my dog, Ella, who keeps me in shape with one thousand walks a year; and most of all, to my lovely children, Edith and Alice. You are the ones who make this all worth doing.
—Thomas Gustavsson
To Jasmine Star, your positive energy, inquisitive nature, wonderful interpersonal skills, and superlative editing and writing skills made this book not only possible to write, but fun to write. You are the greatest!
—All of the authors
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Principles of Brief Intervention
Chapter 1: A Brief Review of Brief Therapy
Chapter 2: How People Get Stuck
Chapter 3: The Process of Radical Change
Part 2: Practice Tools and Methods for Brief, Focused
Chapter 4: Focused Interviewing
Chapter 5: Strategies and Tools for Increasing Motivation
Chapter 6: Promoting Radical Change
Part 3: Case Examples
Chapter 7: Big Like Swallow: FACT with a Sexually Abused Child
Chapter 8: Lost in Space: FACT with a Poly-Substance-Abusing Adult
Chapter 9: Playing It Safe: FACT with an Adult Survivor of Sexual Abuse
Chapter 10: Disconnected and Demoralized: FACT with a Depressed Elderly Woman
Part 4: FACT with Couples and Groups
Chapter 11: Until Death Do Us Part: Conducting FACT with Couples
Chapter 12: The More the Merrier: Conducting FACT in Groups and Classes
Appendix: Interview, Case Formulation, and Assessment Tools
References
Introduction
When we are no longer able to change a situation…we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
This book is designed to help you, the clinician, help people who are struggling, sometimes desperately so, to experience rapid, life-altering change. When people lack the skills to be flexible in their approach and are unwilling to change strategies that aren’t working, many of life’s most difficult moments can seem emotionally overwhelming, and it is easy to get stuck, or frozen in place. Interestingly, some individuals, when confronted with these types of difficulties, “get large” and seem able to transcend the situation. We know that this can happen even under the most horrifying life circumstances—just read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (1992) as one example—so there is no reason to believe it can’t happen in the normal course of everyday living. The quest to develop a model for promoting rapid, lasting change starts with this question: How does one person recruit the inner resources to accept what has happened and move on in life, while another is all but annihilated by the same type of life challenge?
In Frankl’s case, he witnessed horrible atrocities on a daily basis and struggled to make sense of the barbarism he observed. His transformation involved accepting that he might never see his wife again (and in fact he never did) while still finding ways to experience and express his undying love toward her. This ability to transcend horrible circumstances is not logical; it is the human version of the quantum leap in physics. Our basic proposition is that any person, no matter how far down in the hole he or she is, can experience radical life changes in exactly this way.
What Is Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Focused acceptance and commitment therapy, or FACT, is a new model of brief therapy that is a highly condensed version of a well-established, longer-term treatment called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999, 2011). FACT uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies to help clients transform their relationship with unwanted, distressing experiences, such as disturbing thoughts, unpleasant emotions, painful memories, or uncomfortable physical symptoms. FACT does not attempt to change the content of such private events; indeed, it is efforts to change, suppress, eliminate, or control these events that FACT views as problematic. When clients become preoccupied with managing their emotions, avoiding painful memories, or trying to replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts, they can’t attend to the immediate needs of their life situation. In effect, they become rigid, ineffective problem solvers. FACT teaches clients to instead simply observe and accept the presence of these experiences. This new perspective allows them to see emotions as just emotions, memories as just memories, thoughts as just thoughts, and sensations as just sensations.
A second feature of FACT is its emphasis on helping clients connect with personal values and engage in committed actions th