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Relational Integrative Psychotherapy : Engaging Process and Theory in Practice.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finlay, Linda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Subjects:
Eclectic psychotherapy.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781119087328
1119087325
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Organisation of the Book
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 What is Relational Integrative Psychotherapy?
  • Being 'Relational'
  • Embracing 'Integration'
  • Challenges of Theoretical Integration
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • Part I Being and Doing Processes
  • 2 Meeting and Contracting
  • First Contact
  • Problem Formulation and 'Storying'
  • Use of Diagnostic Categories
  • Treatment Planning
  • Contracting
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 3 Engaging the Therapeutic Process
  • Nurturing the Therapeutic Alliance
  • Ensuring Safety
  • Listening, Sensing and Making Sense
  • Enabling Change
  • Being Present to Relational Processes
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 4 Empathising and Attuning
  • Empathy
  • Attunement
  • 'Empathic Attunement': A Rhythmic Dance
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 5 Holding, Containing and Boundarying
  • Boundarying to Hold and Contain
  • Defining the Nature of 'Holding' and 'Containing'
  • Intrapsychic, Emotional and Intersubjective Holding-Containing
  • The Shadow Side: Arguments Against Holding-Containing
  • The Therapist as a 'Contained-Container'
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 6 Resourcing: Nurturing Skills and Mobilising Coping Strategies
  • Identifying Resources
  • The Value of Self-Help
  • Nurturing Insight, Awareness and Self-Understanding
  • Skills Development: Psycho-educational Interventions
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 7 Intuiting, Imagining and Interpreting
  • Using Guided Imagery and Fantasy
  • Engaging Metaphor
  • Embodying a Felt Sense
  • Utilising Dream Work
  • The Relational Base of Imaginal Work
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 8 Challenging
  • Robust-confrontative Challenging
  • Analytic-strategic Challenging
  • Gentle-empathic Challenging
  • Tacit Challenging
  • Key Principles of Effective Challenging
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 9 Integrating
  • The Integrating Project: Levels of Integration
  • Jayne's Story: Integrating Selves
  • Kjell's Story: Integrating Experience
  • Norbert's Story: A Transpersonal Integration
  • Steven's Story: Healing through Relationship
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 10 Ending
  • Deciding to End
  • Working through Loss, Separation and Grief
  • Embracing the 'Transition' into the World
  • Stock-taking
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • Part II Theory Applied to Practice
  • 11 Cognitively Orientated Therapy
  • Principles Underlying the Cognitive Tradition
  • Working in a Relational-integrative Way
  • Evidence-based Practice?
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 12 Existential Phenomenology: Theory and Therapy
  • Existential Phenomenology: 'Landmarks' in the Philosophical Territory
  • The Phenomenological Attitude: 'Bracketing' and 'Being'
  • Existential-phenomenological Therapy
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Notes
  • 13 Gestalt Theory and Therapy
  • Theoretical Foundations Applied to Therapy
  • The Gestalt Cycle

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