This volume, winner of a major award in the US even before it was published, provides practical guidelines on how to design and organize the optimal course of cost-effective psychological therapy for each patient. It emphasizes the critical issues that the therapist should consider before deciding on which techniques should be applied. The "Plan Analysis" approach is independent of any one school of thought, making this book useful not only to psychologists, but to social workers and a range of councellors in schools, institutions and social agencies. The author offers many practical insights on how to understand what the world looks like to a particular patient, and how to utilize that insight in being able to achieve cost-effective, material improvements in his or her well-being. Many abilities are beyond pure theoretical knowledge and cannot be acquired simply by reading this book. The intention of the author is to develop these skills, including how to perceive and interpret a patient's non-verbal behaviour, as well as how to really know oneself as a therapist and therefore take account of one's own personality.
Guidance provided in this book is based on extensive practical application in the US and Europe. While the orientation is clinical, the entire presentation evolves from a solid conceptual framework, explained in readable terms. Numerous examples and figures help illustrate the skills being explained.
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Höhe: 22.9 cm
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978-0-88937-117-0 (9780889371170)
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Part 1 Therapy planning and case conceptualizations: therapy - change through planned action; requirements for a case conceptualization. Part 2 The model: intent and history of plan analysis; the theoretical background; the interactionistic view and the structures of plans; plan structure; perception; interaction; the embedding of plans in all of an individual's behaviours and experiences; emotions; plan analysis as a structural theory; model of psychological disorders; inter-analyzer agreement. Part 3 Case conceptualization: introduction; the way of representing and structuring case conceptualizations; an example. Part 4 The practice of inferring plans and consequences for therapy: introduction; the practice of inferring plans; inclusion of different aspects of behaviour and of different sources of information; consciousness and introspection; nonverbal behaviour; appraisal of observed details as conspicuous; the impact of the analyzers upon the result; formulation of plan names; the development of hypotheses about a patient's plans; inferring plans top-down; hierarchical ordering of plans; instrumentality; distinction of instrumental and reactive behaviour; multiple determination; the relation between emotions and plans; testing and changing plan structures; the representation of additional, non-instrumental information; categories of plans; plan conflicts; test plans, perception plans and general construction plans; plans in systems; consequences for therapy; multiply determined therapist behaviour; communication with patients about "their" plans; comments and proposed solutions for the exercises. Part 5 Schemata and frames. Part 6 Plan analysis as a research instrument. Part 7 Conclusion.
