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Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing
Cultivating what is right, rather than focusing on what is wrong, for therapy that works.
People enter therapy not just because they are stuck and struggling, but also because they are ready for change and have some hope of experiencing it. That readiness is a manifestation of each person’s innate resilience, their capacity to work on their own behalf to heal.Many of the common modes of clinical work focus on pathology, the effects of habits or conditions that can be healed through clinical work. Eileen Russell, without discounting the importance of pathology, offers us the idea that the best way to help with what’s going wrong in people’s lives is to build from the foundation of what’s going right. In this book, therapists will learn how to identify the potential for resilience in clients and help them cultivate and deepen it for lasting change.Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology and affect regulation research, as well as a number of theoretical orientations including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Focusing, attachment theory, and EMDR, Russell provides the essential tools and background for any therapist interested in engaging in resilience-oriented therapy. She includes a wealth of thoughtfully annotated examples from her own clinical work, shares inspiring, illuminating stories of patients who have become more resilient through therapy, and offers many practical tips for clinicians along the way.
People enter therapy not just because they are stuck and struggling, but also because they are ready for change and have some hope of experiencing it. That readiness is a manifestation of each person’s innate resilience, their capacity to work on their own behalf to heal.Many of the common modes of clinical work focus on pathology, the effects of habits or conditions that can be healed through clinical work. Eileen Russell, without discounting the importance of pathology, offers us the idea that the best way to help with what’s going wrong in people’s lives is to build from the foundation of what’s going right. In this book, therapists will learn how to identify the potential for resilience in clients and help them cultivate and deepen it for lasting change.Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology and affect regulation research, as well as a number of theoretical orientations including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Focusing, attachment theory, and EMDR, Russell provides the essential tools and background for any therapist interested in engaging in resilience-oriented therapy. She includes a wealth of thoughtfully annotated examples from her own clinical work, shares inspiring, illuminating stories of patients who have become more resilient through therapy, and offers many practical tips for clinicians along the way.
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385 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2011
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July 19, 2019
Once in a while I happen to find a book which truly changes me as a person and as a mental health professional. During and after reading such a book, it feels like my understanding and skills are expanded in considerable ways, and I wish to recommend it to everyone because there is so much insight and perspective to gain from it. Eileen Russell's book on restoring resilience is such a book. I would like to recommend it to every psychotherapist who wants to work on a deep transformational level with his or her clients.
The book is written from an AEDP point of view, which is new to me, and yet the writing style and explanations are clear and complete enough that, far from being an impediment in my understanding, the different school of thought offered me plenty of information that I can use to help my clients. It combines theory and vignettes in such a way that it is easy to read, convincing, and applicable. I also personally found it a very hopeful and vitalizing read, while still well-rooted in the science and practice of psychotherapy.
The book is written from an AEDP point of view, which is new to me, and yet the writing style and explanations are clear and complete enough that, far from being an impediment in my understanding, the different school of thought offered me plenty of information that I can use to help my clients. It combines theory and vignettes in such a way that it is easy to read, convincing, and applicable. I also personally found it a very hopeful and vitalizing read, while still well-rooted in the science and practice of psychotherapy.
May 7, 2021
Russell provides a great frame for understanding resilience as both a trait and a skill; she encapsulates the complexities and storied contextualization of resilience. I appreciate the focus on positive psychology and on not only address pathologies but helping patients grow into their strengths.
She writes for therapists, so I skimmed the bulk of the book as the 1:1 counseling setting isn't where I work, so I can't speak to the usefulness of those techniques.
She writes for therapists, so I skimmed the bulk of the book as the 1:1 counseling setting isn't where I work, so I can't speak to the usefulness of those techniques.
February 2, 2022
As a GP, IFS therapist and MBSR/MSC teacher I found this book easy to read, inspiring and helpful.
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