Developmental Strategies for Helpers: Individual, Family, and Network Interventions

by Allen E. Ivey

Highly practical, this book shows how to integrate developmental theory into counseling and clinical practice. It focuses on the "hard stuff" and this is where the Developmental Counseling and Therapy model has consistently been found effective and highly useful. Research is coming more and more to validate this new model of human change. Full of specifics, this book can be a groundbreaking experience for your students and for clinical practice. 1. Our Developmental Nature 2. Assessing Developmental Level in the Interview and Daily Life 3. Developmental Specific Intervention to Facilitate Client Cognitive and Affective Development 4. Confrontation and Creation of the New 5. Development Over the Life Span 6. Using DCT with Personality A Positive Developmental View 7. Multicultural Development 8. Network Interventions and DCT 9. Developing and Supervising Helping Professionals Instructor Guide Available as well as videotape examples of the process in action.

Paperback

First published August 1, 1991

About the author

Allen E. Ivey received his counseling doctorate from Harvard University and is distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Courtesy Professor, Counselor Education, University of South Florida, Tampa. He is past-President and Fellow of the Society for Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, APA’s Society for the Study of Ethnic and Minority Psychology, the Asian-American Psychological Association, and the American Counseling Association. He has received many awards throughout his career and has authored over 40 books and 200 articles and chapters. His works have been translated into 23 languages. His recent work has focused on applying Developmental Counseling and Therapy and neuroscience to the analysis and treatment of severe psychological distress.