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The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein
The Art of the Question extends the range of cognitive-behavioraltherapy by elaborating on the ways that internal questions programthought, emotion, and behavior. Describing a groundbreaking,question-centered approach to therapy, the concepts and practicesin this book are essential for facilitating successful counselingand therapy. The Art of the Question contains everything therapistsneed to add question-centered methods to their therapeutictoolkits.
The question-driven nature of choice is one of the pillars ofquestion-centered therapy. The Art of the Question offers practicalpsycho-educational tools to help clients create better choices, bemore effective in the ways they make choices, and takeresponsibility for their decisions. Clients learn to ask questionsleading to solutions and positive possibilities, rather than thosefocusing on problems, negativity, and limitations. They discoverthat healing, growth, creativity, and change are often catalyzedthrough the simple act of changing their questions.
The Art of the Question includes:
* Question strategies for win-win marriages
* Many compelling clinical cases and vignettes
* Detailed methods for helping clients discover and transform thesilent, implicit questions that program their lives
* A framework for asking questions of clients at each stage of thetherapeutic process
* Illustrated psycho-educational materials for clients
The Art of the Question contains everything therapists need toincorporate question-centered methods into their therapeutic toolkits, making it an essential resource and reference guide for allmental health professionals.
-Albert Einstein
The Art of the Question extends the range of cognitive-behavioraltherapy by elaborating on the ways that internal questions programthought, emotion, and behavior. Describing a groundbreaking,question-centered approach to therapy, the concepts and practicesin this book are essential for facilitating successful counselingand therapy. The Art of the Question contains everything therapistsneed to add question-centered methods to their therapeutictoolkits.
The question-driven nature of choice is one of the pillars ofquestion-centered therapy. The Art of the Question offers practicalpsycho-educational tools to help clients create better choices, bemore effective in the ways they make choices, and takeresponsibility for their decisions. Clients learn to ask questionsleading to solutions and positive possibilities, rather than thosefocusing on problems, negativity, and limitations. They discoverthat healing, growth, creativity, and change are often catalyzedthrough the simple act of changing their questions.
The Art of the Question includes:
* Question strategies for win-win marriages
* Many compelling clinical cases and vignettes
* Detailed methods for helping clients discover and transform thesilent, implicit questions that program their lives
* A framework for asking questions of clients at each stage of thetherapeutic process
* Illustrated psycho-educational materials for clients
The Art of the Question contains everything therapists need toincorporate question-centered methods into their therapeutic toolkits, making it an essential resource and reference guide for allmental health professionals.
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368 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1997
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March 24, 2018
This book made a big impression and changed the way I look at myself, my relationships, and even the world in general. Marilee states that part of us all can be categorised as a Judger Self, and a Learner Self. Without any judgement she explains how if we practice our Learner Self to become dominant, what new possibilities that brings.
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"Learner questions position us to face the future in ways that are solution-seeking, committed to win-win relationships and centered in taking responsibility for our choices. Learner questions open us to dialogue, where we appreciate and learn from our differences, making it possible to include as well as transcend them in the spirit of evolution and the possibility of inventing new worlds together. The Judger's problem-focused questions, on the other hand, dispose one to a future shackled to the past. The judger's reactive, automatic emotionalism and knows-it-already mindset preempt clear-sighted, long-term thinking. Moreover the win-lose goal of judger questions forever imprisons one in its attack-or-defend paradigm."
Quote from the book:
"Learner questions position us to face the future in ways that are solution-seeking, committed to win-win relationships and centered in taking responsibility for our choices. Learner questions open us to dialogue, where we appreciate and learn from our differences, making it possible to include as well as transcend them in the spirit of evolution and the possibility of inventing new worlds together. The Judger's problem-focused questions, on the other hand, dispose one to a future shackled to the past. The judger's reactive, automatic emotionalism and knows-it-already mindset preempt clear-sighted, long-term thinking. Moreover the win-lose goal of judger questions forever imprisons one in its attack-or-defend paradigm."
February 27, 2022
Good book. Great info & tools to manage one's sefl for self mastery. This book was written for therapist. Not for everyone. The average reader should read her book Change your questions change your life.
July 29, 2019
La mise en pratique de la Curiosita par une éminente psychothérapeute.
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