ABSTRACT
Intentional Intervention in Counseling and Therapy answers three questions: what heals in counseling and therapy and how? What actions in clinical decision making ensure an optimal outcome for the client? And why are some clinicians more successful than others, apparently remaining so over time? Incorporating citations across multiple disciplines, referencing authorities in both CBT and psychodynamic models, and interwoven with composite case material and session transcripts, this book unmasks the dialectic between goals and process in clinical work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
Phenomenology of clinical decision making
chapter 1|21 pages
Theory
Observation and construction • evolutionary aggregation and the developmental metamodel
chapter 2|20 pages
Evidence
Physiological operationalization • Empathy countertransference and practice-based evidence
chapter 3|12 pages
Relationship
Mirroring and evolutionary theory • the difference between counseling and therapy
chapter 4|12 pages
Conceptualization
Client personality development and second-order change • signal of the dialectic
chapter 5|14 pages
Treatment
Pathology, adaptation, transference and transition • the environmental call to let go
part II|32 pages
The Therapist-Self
chapter 6|30 pages
Synthesis
Obviating the client’s dilemma • therapeutic communication • the clinician’s cardinal Archetypes
part III|69 pages
Phenomenology of clinician development
chapter 7|8 pages
Transition
From good intentions to intentionality • the beginning clinician and the Feeling-Sensing Style
chapter 9|17 pages
Congruence
Client negative affect and the low experiencing clinician • neurobiology of upholding the dilemma
chapter 10|11 pages
Unconditional positive regard
Clinician susceptibility to client disavowal • projective identification and the countertransference group
