You can find a comprehensive set of online lectures for each of the major theories in Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy and Case Documentation in Counseling and Psychotherapy. These are recorded by the author to accompany the text.
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Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy, 4th Ed.
This text is designed for:
- Family therapy courses
- Clinical skills courses
- Practicum and fieldwork courses
- Use across multiple courses
- License exam preparation
Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy is designed to be an efficient and highly effective means of teaching new therapists to master the essential competencies necessary to succeed in doing couples and family therapy in the 21st century. As an instructor in an accredited program and university that is required to measure student learning, I needed something that would enable me to effectively measure student learning. Although I created comprehensive assessment systems for measuring student mastery of competencies (Gehart, 2007, 2009), I realized that in order to do so, the students needed resources that provided them with the detailed knowledge to develop real-world skills. In short, I needed something more than a text that simply offered solid but old school “book knowledge”; I needed a resource that eloquently responded to my students’ everyday training experiences and needs. This book was written to be the missing link between theory and practice that my students needed.
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Collaborative-Dialogic Practice:
Relationships and Conversations that make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures
Have you ever wondered how to successfully communicate with someone who sees the world from an entirely different angle than you do?
Often the chasm seems impossible to navigate, even with the best of intentions.
Whether you work in a boardroom, schoolroom, therapy room, or community organization, Collaborative-Dialogic Practice offers a humanizing approach to facilitating dialogues that make a difference in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-shrinking world.
These practices encourage relationships and conversations that create a generative space and promote meaningful transformations, even in the most difficult situations. This approach involves an epistemological and mindset shift in how we think about ourselves, the people we meet, what we do together, and how we do it. Grounded in social constructionism, the main feature of the practice, the philosophical stance, guides the professional in particular ways of being, talking, thinking, and acting with others.
Rather than assuming an expert position of authoritative knowledge, collaborative practitioners use curiosity, not-knowing, and uncertainty to engage others in meaningful dialogue that generates new understandings, informing future possibilities that were previously unimagined by either person alone.
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Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy, 3rd Ed.
This text is designed for:
- Family therapy courses
- Clinical skills courses
- Practicum and fieldwork courses
- Use across multiple courses
- License exam preparation
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theories and practice of family therapy. In addition to practical and detailed coverage of couple and family therapy theories, the text also illustrates how these theories are applied in clinical case documentation, including case conceptualization, treatment planning, clinical assessment, progress notes, and evaluating therapy outcomes.
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Theories and Treatment Planning in Family Therapy
This text is designed for:
- Family therapy courses
- Clinical skills courses
- Practicum and fieldwork courses
- License exam preparation
This family therapy text provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to couple and family therapy theories. The text includes theory-specific case conceptualization and treatment planning to better enable students to understand how theories are applied in practice. In addition, applications with specific cultural groups and with LGBTQ clients are highlighted for each theory, providing comprehensive and meaningful coverage of diversity issues. Furthermore, each chapter includes a meaningful discuss of research and the evidence base as it relates to each theory.
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Compare the Family Theory Texts
Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy, 2nd Ed.
This text is designed for:
- Counseling theory courses
- Clinical skills courses
- Practicum and fieldwork courses
- License exam preparation
This counseling theory text provides a comprehensive and practical introduction of counseling and psychotherapy theories. The text includes theory-specific case conceptualization and treatment planning to better enable students to understand how theories are applied in practice. In addition, applications with specific cultural groups and with LGBTQ clients are highlighted for each theory, providing comprehensive and meaningful coverage of diversity issues. Furthermore, each chapter includes a meaningful discuss of research and the evidence base as it relates to each theory.
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Features - What is New in the 2nd Edition
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Compare the Counseling Theory Texts
Case Documentation in Counseling and Psychotherapy
A Theory-Informed, Competency-Based Approach
This text is designed for:
- Clinical skills courses
- Practicum and fieldwork courses
- License exam preparation
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to completing case documentation using counseling theory. Part I provides a detailed introduction to case conceptualization, clinical assessment and diagnosis (including DSM-5 overview), treatment planning, progress notes, and measuring client progress. Part II provides overviews of each major theoretical school and provides detailed examples of how to complete case documentation when working from the specific theoretical orientation. The final section provides a practical introduction to becoming a competent supervisee, including a discussion of how to engage successfully in supervision, handle common problems that arise, and manage stress in the early years of being a counselor and psychotherapist.
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Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference
Edited by Harlene Anderson & Diane Gehart
Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference provides in-depth accounts of the everyday practice of postmodern collaborative therapy, vibrantly illustrating how dialogic conversation can transform lives, relationships, and entire communities. Pioneers and leading professionals from diverse disciplines, contexts, and cultures describe in detail what they do in their therapy and training practices, including their work with psychosis, incarceration, aging, domestic violence, eating disorders, education, and groups. In addition to the therapeutic applications, the book demonstrates the usefulness of a postmodern collaborative approach to the domains of education, research, and organizations.
Learn MoreMindfulness and Acceptance in Couples and Family Therapy
This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical approach for putting these ideas into action in the therapy room, including a mindful approach to therapeutic relationships, case conceptualization, treatment planning, teaching meditation, and intervention.
Learn MoreVideo Series
Free to Instructors and Available to Students via MindTap
Video Series Unique Features
- Competency-Based: Each video is designed to teach a significant and specific intervention from the selected theory, such as scaling questions in solution-focused therapy. In each video, several other skills will also be demonstrated, such as forming a counseling/therapeutic relationship, goal setting, etc., and are clearly identified by commentary text at the bottom of the screen.
- Brief: The videos are briefer than many other videos, with session demonstrations averaging 30 minutes and a total length of 45-50 minutes.
- Post-Session with Clients: Arguably the most compelling and educational element of the videos, clients are interviewed after the session about their experience of the session to provide additional feedback about the intervention and offer an intimate description of what it felt like to experience the intervention.
- Diversity: The videos demonstrate therapy with diverse clients and expert therapists. In addition, each expert describes using the theory and specific intervention with diverse clients.
- Evidence-Base: Each expert also addresses to the evidence base for the theory and/or specific intervention demonstrated.
- Educational Commentary: For the therapy portion of the video, each expert provides written commentary that appears at the bottom of the screen to significantly enhance the educational effectiveness of the videos by identifying techniques being used, explaining clinical decisions, and providing tips for implementing with clients.
- Supervision Guidance: The post-session will include guidance from the expert on how to learn the specific intervention.
List of Videos to Accompany Counseling and Psychothrerapy Texts
List of Videos to Accompany Family Therapy Texts
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Free Youtube Lecture Series
I have created a series of YouTube lectures to accompany my texts. These are lectures on the theories and clinical documentation.
