Healing Through Relating: A Skill-building Book for Therapists

by Jon Frederickson

Would you like to be a more skilled therapist? Would you like to help the 50 percent of patients who drop out of therapy before they receive its full benefits? Would you like to connect with hard-to-reach patients so you can form a healing therapeutic alliance? While other books teach theory, this book will help you develop the specific skills you need to be an effective therapist. You can practice the exercises with a partner or with audio recordings, just like learning a language. And videos will show you how. Each of the forty-two skill-building exercises teaches a specific technique so you can successfully address typical impasses in therapy. Where you got stuck in the past, you'll be able to move forward in the future. You will learn what to say so you can assess and regulate anxiety, help patients develop and keep an effective focus that leads to change, teach patients to see and let go of avoidance strategies, work with patients who deny that they need therapy, mobilize patients' will to work toward a positive goal, support patients so they can shift from denial to facing reality, and identify early signs of dropout so you can prevent it. When you improve your relational skills, you will be better equipped to help anxious patients.

Genres: Psychology

151 pages, Paperback

Published May 23, 2023

Reviews

[Jude St. Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

هر چی جان‌ فردریکسون بگه😂

[Nima · Rating 5 out of 5]

خوندن این کتاب برام کمک بزرگی بود. خیلی از پیش‌ فرض‌هام درباره‌ی درمان رو تغییر داد و کمکم کرد بتونم به انسانی که رو به روم قرار می‌گیره احترامی اصیل بذارم.

[Heiki Eesmaa · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book that's broadly similar to the Deliberate Practice series by Vaz & Rousmaniere. I suspect they took the main structure of the exercises from Frederickson actually. Anyway. If one were to compare, this really has a lot of stimuli and exercises and without comparing I'd say more than the DP guides. The material seems very generalizable even though based on an analytic conceptualization.

The Kindle copy I have has occasional formatting and editing errors which in this type of product are more of a problem than in a more common monograph. The links to audio and video materials seem to be completely broken -- it seems they have packaged the material as separate courses so the book is really outdated in a sense. As a refined product it might be a 4-star if not better.

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Used this as a supplemental source for my Individual Systems SW class. Has some good ideas, not much to the book. Could definitely not use it as the whole text. Probably would not recommunless it's an addition.

[Karla · Rating 3 out of 5]

For someone who is new to learning ISTDP, it was a good starting point but the book doesn’t go very in depth. I feel like it is vague in the theory and needed more depth into how to actually do therapy, not just how to start it.

[Nasim · Rating 5 out of 5]

من ترجمه‌ی نشر ارجمند رو خوندم که خوب بود
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