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Expectation

The Very Brief Therapy Book
  • ISBN-13: 9781845900281
  • Publisher: CROWN HOUSE PUBLISHING
    Imprint: CROWN HOUSE PUBLISHING
  • By Rubin Battino
  • Price: AUD $52.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2006
  • Format: Hardback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 536g
  • Categories: Psychotherapy [MMJT]
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This immensely powerful and practical book is about utilising the power of expectation in working with clients. It is the author's contention that creating an environment where the client expects to change is the foundation of doing effective very brief therapy. His own private practice is one where he rarely sees clients more than one or two times. Clients know in advance that this is the way that he works, and so their expectation is that during this session they are going to get down to the hard stuff, and resolve their concerns insofar as it is possible. This means working as if each session were the last one. This book is about all of the things that are designed to work in a single-session mode. This is not to say that some clients will need many more sessions but creating the expectation that each session will be the last creates an impetus towards change that is vital in the therapeutic process. After presenting the basic outline of this approach, the book details (chapter by chapter) the specific approaches that the author finds most useful in his work. These include Ericksonian hypnosis and psychotherapy, solution-focused brief therapy, reframing, Rossi's “fail-safe methods, and ideomotorsignaling. In addition, metaphor, guided metaphor, and narrative therapy are utilized, as well as many methods. Battino has put in one place a collection of rapid and effective approaches to doing therapy. The emphasis is on the expectation of both the client and the therapist that rapid lasting change is possible.
After presenting the basic outline of this approach, the remainder of the book details (chapter by chapter) the specific approaches that the author finds most useful in this work. These include:; Rapport; Hypnotic Language; Metaphor and Hypnosis; Solution-Oriented Approaches; The Work of de Shazer and Associates; Bill O'Hanlon's Approaches; Lucas Derks's Social Panorama; Erickson and Very Brief Therapy; Jay Haley and Ordeal Therapy; Ambiguous Function Assignments; Burns's Nature-Guided Therapy; Richard R. Kopp's Metaphor Therapy; Rossi's Rapid Methods; Ideodynamic Methods (Mostly D. B. Cheek); NLP Approaches; Narrative Therapy; Rituals and Ceremonies; Provocative Therapy; Duncan, Miller, and Sparks' ''Heroic Client''; Moshe Talmon's Single Session Therapy (SST); Expectation is the definitive guide to how Rubin Battino does therapy. As such it is an essential addition to any therapists library.
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