Happiness, Healing, Enhancement : Your Casebook Collection for Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy

by George W. Burns (Milton H. Erickson Institute of Western Australia and The Hypnotherapy Centre of Western Australia )

• ISBN13: 9780470560846
• ISBN10: 0470560843
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Quick Reference Guides

Introduction

Happiness

Orienting Toward Happiness

Strengthspotting: Finding And Developing Client Resources In The Management Of Intense Anger

We Will Be Laughing Again: Restoring Relationships With Positive Couples Therapy

What Is Right With Him? Ericksonian Positive Psychotherapy In A Case Of Sexual Abuse

The Why, Not The What: The Positive Power Of Intrinsic Motivations In Client Goal Setting And Pursuit

Instilling Hope

From Here To Where You Want To Be: Building the Bridges with Hope Therapy in a Case of Major Depression

You Want Me to Fix it? Using Evidence-Based Interventions To Instill Hope In Parents And Children

Putting the Lid on the Divorce Monster: Creating Hope-Filled Narratives With Storybook Therapy

Utilizing Client Resources

Development Through Disability: The Unfolding And Sharing Of Psychological Resources

From Vulnerability to Skillfulness: Leisure and Positive Intervention in Therapy With Adolescents

Do You See the Forest or the Tree? Utilizing Client Interests and Strengths in a Case of Asperger's Syndrome

Healing

Moving Beyond Depression

Now I Can Get on with Life: Pleasure, Engagement and Meaning in a Case of Major Depression

Empowering Lisa: The Power of Metaphor for a Depressed And Suicidal Teen

Can Helping Others Help Oneself? Reflections on Altruism, Health and Well-being

Building Mindfulness and Acceptance

Doing Nothing, Changing Profoundly: The Paradox of Mindfulness in a Case of Anxiety

Laying Out in Anxiety: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Values-based Living

Playing with the Moment: A Frame Theory for Positive Outcomes in Anxiety Treatment

Transcending Trauma and Pain

Can You be Happy in Pain? Applying Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and Hypnosis to Chronic Pain Management

Charting a Course to New Beginnings: Decoding Signals of Persistent Traumatic Stress Reactions in a Shipwreck Survivor

A Surprise Attack, A Surprise Result: Posttraumatic Growth Through Expert Companionship

Enhancement

Exploring New Approaches

Sunsets and Seashores: Nature-Guided Therapy in Positive Couple and Family Work

A Dream of Creative Menopause: A New Neuroscience of Brief Psychotherapy for Solving Puzzles of Biology and Psychology

Can We Play Again? Applying Positive Psychology Principles in Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy

Finding Tools and Techniques

Inspiring Change: How to Use Tools of Intention for Positive Outcomes

A Positive Way of Addressing Negatives: Using Strengths-Based Interventions in Coaching and Therapy

There's a Fly in the Urinal: Developing Therapeutic Possibilities from Research Findings

Communicating Happiness, Healing, Enhancement

Soaring to New Heights: Outcome-Oriented Metaphor in a Case of Severe Phobia

Are There Times Not to Use Positive Therapy? Some Concluding Thoughts

Author Index

Subject Index

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