Expectation : The Very Brief Therapy Book

by Battino, Rubin

• ISBN13: 9781845900281
• ISBN10: 1845900286
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd

Summary

This immensely powerful and practical book is about utilizing the power of expectation in working with clients. It is the author's contention that creating an environment where the client expects to change is the foundation of doing effective very brief therapy. His own private practice is one where he rarely sees clients more than one or two times. Clients know in advance that this is the way that he works, and so their expectation is that during each session they are going to get down to the hard stuff, and resolve their concerns insofar as it is possible. This means working as if each session were the last one. So, this book is about all of the things that are designed to work in a single-session mode. There will, of course, still be clients who will need many more sessions but creating the expectation that each session will be last creates an impetus towards change that is vital in the therapeutic process.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Long Days Journey into Light	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Introduction to Very Brief Therapy	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Great Psychotherapy Debate	p. 3
Five Components of the Medical Model	p. 3
The Heart and Soul of Change	p. 8
Duncan, Miller and Sparks's "Heroic Client"	p. 12
The Outcome Rating Scale	p. 15
The Session Rating Scale	p. 15
Moshe Talmon's Single Session Therapy (SST)	p. 20
Some Concluding Comments	p. 23
Expectation and As-If	p. 25
Importance of Expectation, Motivation and As-If	p. 25
The Theory of Change	p. 27
The Power of As-If	p. 29
Reframing	p. 29
Summing Up	p. 32
Rapport	p. 33
Importance of Rapport	p. 33
Rapport-building Skills	p. 35
Linguistic or Verbal Pacing	p. 35
Physical or Postural Pacing	p. 36
Language for Very Brief Therapy	p. 37
Hypnotic Language	p. 37
Expectational Language-Suggestions, Implications and Presuppositions	p. 46
Torpedo Style Language	p. 49
Metaphoric Language	p. 50
Summing Up	p. 51
Hypnosis and Very Brief Therapy	p. 55
Rationale for Using Hypnosis	p. 55
Metaphor and Hypnosis	p. 56
Hypnosis in Various Therapies	p. 57
Solution-Oriented Approaches	p. 59
The Work of de Shazer and Associates	p. 59
Miller and Duncan and Colleagues' Approaches	p. 63
Berg and Dolan and Miller's Wisdom	p. 63
Common Sense	p. 65
Bill O'Hanlon's Approaches	p. 67
Inclusive Therapy	p. 67
Brief, Respectful Therapy	p. 71
Hypnosis in O'Hanlon's Work	p. 74
Lucas Derks's Social Panorama	p. 75
Introduction	p. 75
Some Examples of Social Panoramas	p. 78
Summing Up	p. 83
Erickson and Very Brief Therapy	p. 85
Utilization Principle	p. 85
Practicality	p. 87
Stories and Metaphors	p. 89
Tasks and Ordeals	p. 91
Jay Haley and Ordeal Therapy	p. 93
What is Ordeal Therapy?	p. 93
Haley's Systematics of Ordeal Therapy	p. 94
Examples of Ordeals	p. 96
Ambiguous Function Assignments	p. 99
Description of Ambiguous Function Assignments	p. 99
Some Suggestions for Ambiguous Function Assignments	p. 102
Burns's Nature-Guided Therapy	p. 107
What is Nature-Guided Therapy?	p. 107
Some Ecotherapy Procedures and Examples	p. 109
Nature Heals	p. 114
Metaphoric Approaches	p. 115
Uses of Metaphor	p. 115
Richard R. Kopp's Metaphor Therapy	p. 117
Client-generated Metaphors for Immediate Concerns	p. 118
Transforming the Early-memory Metaphor	p. 119
Guided Metaphor	p. 120
Rossi's Rapid Methods	p. 123
Fail-safe Methods	p. 123
Ideodynamic Methods (mostly D. B. Cheek)	p. 128
Some Concluding Comments	p. 130
NLP Approaches	p. 133
The NLP Meta-model of Language	p. 133
Distortions	p. 134
Generalizations	p. 135
Deletions	p. 136
The "Swish" Method	p. 138
Time Line Therapy	p. 140
V-K Dissociation	p. 142
Reframing the NLP Way	p. 143
Changing Personal History	p. 144
Summing Up	p. 145
Narrative Therapy	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
Some Elements of Narrative Therapy	p. 148
Summing Up	p. 152
Rituals and Ceremonies	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Psychotherapeutic Uses of Ceremonies	p. 158
When All Else Fails	p. 161
Ask the Client	p. 162
Listen	p. 163
Minimalism	p. 164
Crystal Ball	p. 164
Metaphors	p. 165
Ambiguous Function Assignments	p. 165
Look at Yourself From	p. 165
Provocative Therapy	p. 166
Refer/Consult	p. 166
Brief Final Thoughts	p. 169
The Universal Very Brief Therapy Intervention (UVBTI)	p. 170
References	p. 173
Index	p. 183
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