Empowering Dialogues Within A Workbook for Helping Professionals and Their Clients

by Cohen-Posey, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780470281932
• ISBN10: 0470281936
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Immersed with wisdom, Empowering Dialogues Within is a unique client workbook filled with narratives, case vignettes, and exercises, providing mental health professionals with a broad-based toolkit to help clients become more self-aware. It is filled with instructive case examples and practical advice for building clients? confidence, wisdom, and sense of wellness and a foundation for lifelong strength and growth.

Author Biography

Kate Cohen-Posey is Director of Psychiatric & Psychological Services in Lakeland, Florida. She is the author of Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking for Helping Professionals and Their Clients, Brief therapy Client Handouts (both published by Wiley) and How to Handle bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies. A dynamic presenter, she has a passion for teaching professionals a method that helps people find their way out of mental anguish by going deeper inside.

Table of Contents

Discovering the True Self.

Psychological Pioneers

The Corporate Self

Development Of Higher Selves

Recognition Of Higher Selves

Exercises for Empowering the Self.

Finding the Self through Memories

Empowering the Will

Synthesizing the Self

Recognizing and Remembering Spirit

Identifying Personality Parts.

Psychological Pioneers

The Origin of Inner Parts

The Corporate Self

Naming Parts to Return to the True Self

Exercises for Identifying Inner Parts.

PersonaeùThe Adaptable Personalities

DistractersùThe Fixed Personalities

DirectorsùThe Hidden Personalities

Emotional EntitiesùThe Instinctual Personalities

Identifying Inner Images

Identifying Names for Parts and Selves

Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts

Engaging Personality Parts with Dialogue.

The Mind as Metaphor

The ôMaterial Mind, and Dialogueö

Steps to the Dance of Dialogue

Dialogue in a Child's Mind

Review and Practice Exercises

TherapistsÆ Guide to Empowering Dialogical.

Therapy through Dialogue

Coaching Aides

Counseling Emotional Entities and Abreaction

Comparison to Related Approaches

Historical Context and Possible Proofs.

Forerunners to Therapies of Parts and Selves

Philosophical Context and Contributions

Psycho-Neurological Evidence

Terminologies for Parts and Selves

Psychotherapy Approaches Referenced in the Text

Glossary

References

Index of Client Vignettes

Index of Subject Matter

Charts, Tables, and Illustrations

The Corporate SelfùOrganization of SELVES and Parts

Involution of the Self

Mandala Graph Paper

The Corporate SelfùOrganization of PARTS and Selves

Rebecca's Drawing

Dynamics of the Community of Self

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