Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners

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Part I: Introduction. Part II: The Level I Practitioner Profile 1. The Basic Skills of Psychotherapy: A New Look. 2. The Domain of Connecting with and Engaging the Client, Part 1: Listening. 3. The Domain of Connecting with and Engaging the Client, Part 2: Responding. 4. The Domain of Assessment, Part 1: Clients' Symptoms, Stages of Change, Needs, Strengths, and Resources. 5. The Domain of Assessment, Part 2: The Theme Behind a Client's Narrative, Therapeutic Goals, and Client Input about Goal Achievement. 6. The Domain of Establishing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance, Part 1: Relationship Building. 7. The Domain of Establishing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance, Part 2: The Care and Feeding of the Therapeutic Alliance. Part III: The Level II Practitioner: Supervisory and Developmental Considerations 8. The Domain of Understanding Clients' Cognitive Schemas, Part 1: Foundations. 9. The Domain of Understanding Clients' Cognitive Schemas, Part 2: Assessment and Clinical Conceptualization. 10. The Domain of Addressing and Managing Clients' Emotional States, Part 1: Basic Understandings. 11. The Domain of Addressing and Managing Clients' Emotional States, Part 2: Managing Common Negative Emotions in Therapy. 12. The Domain of Addressing and Resolving Ambivalence, Part 1: Understanding and Identifying Client Ambivalence. 13. The Domain of Addressing and Resolving Ambivalence, Part 2: Working with and Resolving Client Ambivalence. Part IV: The Level III Practitioner Profile 14. The Domain of Paradoxical Interventions, Part 1: Definition and Neutralizers. 15. The Domain of Paradoxical Interventions, Part 2: Tranquilizers. 16. The Domain of Paradoxical Interventions, Part 3: The Energizers. 17. The Domain of Paradoxical Interventions, Part 4: Challengers. 18. Ethically and Effectively Helping the Client to Disengage: How and Why Nonlinear Thinking and Paradoxical.

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