Clinician's Guide to the Healing Journey

by Rich, Phil; Copans, Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780471297451
• ISBN10: 0471297453
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-25
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

The Healing Journey offers guided journal entries to help individuals explore their feelings, their personal history, the facets of their personality, their interpersonal relationships, and their goals for the future. This sensitive and creative personal journal will give readers new insight into who they are and what they can be.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	v
Introduction	1	(6)
About The Healing Journey	1	(1)
Journaling and Therapy	2	(1)
About the Clinician's Guide	2	(1)
Using The Healing Journey in Therapy	2	(1)
Organization of the Healing Journey	3	(1)
Organization of the Exercises	3	(1)
Your Use of The Healing Journey	4	(1)
About the Exercises	4	(1)
Exercise Techniques and Formats	5	(1)
Rating Exercise Content and Complexity	5	(1)
Overview of the Clinician's Guide Synopses	6	(1)
Embarking on the Journey	6	(1)
Synopses of Exercises	7	(1)
SECTION I: Learning to Speak to Yourself	7	(8)
A Promise to Myself	7	(1)
Thinking about Your Journal	8	(1)
Guided Writing	9	(1)
Structured Writing	9	(1)
Associations	10	(1)
Self-Questions	11	(1)
Questioning the Question	12	(1)
Stream of Consciousness	12	(1)
Fridge Poetry	13	(1)
The Running Commentary	14	(1)
SECTION II: Looking in the Mirror	15	(6)
Who Are You? Your Subpersonalities	15	(1)
Creating a Character Sketch	16	(1)
How Do You See Things from Within?	17	(1)
The Dialogue: Talking to Yourself	18	(1)
The Inner Map	19	(1)
My Feelings	19	(1)
Dreams and Their Meanings	20	(1)
SECTION III: Seeing Yourself in the World	21	(6)
Process Recording	21	(1)
Shifting Perspectives	22	(1)
What If I Were Wrong...	23	(1)
The Artist's Way	24	(1)
Letters	24	(1)
An Important Possession	25	(1)
A List	26	(1)
SECTION IV: Recording Your History	27	(9)
Daily Diary of Thoughts and Feelings	27	(1)
Life Markers: Events	28	(1)
Life Markers: People	29	(1)
The Ten-Minute Autobiography	30	(1)
Another Ten-Minute Autobiography	30	(1)
The Imaginary Autobiography	31	(1)
Visiting Your Childhood House	32	(1)
In a Child's Voice	33	(1)
Houses, Apartments, and Dormitories	34	(1)
Riding the School Bus	35	(1)
SECTION V: Charting Your Future: Finding Solutions and Solving Problems	36
Creating an Awareness Log	36
Opposites	37
Irrational Thinking and Behavior: A Self-Defeating Cycle	37
Cause and Effect---Situations and Behaviors	38
Understanding Your Goals	39
Achieving Your Goals	40
Conclusion	41