<p>In this controversial book, psychologists Barry Duncan and Scott Miller, cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, challenge the traditional focus on diagnosis, "silver bullet" techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish the role of clients and hasten therapy's extinction. Instead, they advocate for the long-ignored but most crucial factor in therapeutic success-the innate resources of the client. Based on extensive clinical research and case studies, The Heroic Client not only shows how to harness the client's powers of regeneration to make therapy effective, but also how to enlist the client as a partner to make therapy accountable. The Heroic Client inspires therapists to boldly rewrite the drama of therapy, recast clients in their rightful role as heroes and heroines of the therapeutic stage, and legitimize their services to third-party payers without the compromises of the medical model.</p>

The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness Through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barry L. Duncan

Scott D. Miller

Jacqueline A. Sparks

Mental Health

Jossey-Bass

Pension Distribution Answer Book delivers fast, easy-to-understand guidance for interpreting statutes and regulations and complying with burdensome distribution tax and reporting rules. Stay current with the hundreds of regulations pertaining to qualified plan distributions.   Pension Distribution Answer Book guides you through the maze of legal, administrative, and tax requirements for all types of distributions...and delivers the facts you need to solve a problem, answer a question, make a decision, or simply find out what the experts think.   This practical reference keeps you current on:    Plan disqualification   Highly compensated employees   Rollover distributions   Discrimination rules   Transfers   Lump sum distributions   Loans   And much more!    The 2013 Edition of Pension Distribution Answer Book has been updated to include:    Discussion of Revenue Ruling 2012-4 and how the Section 415(b) defined benefit limits are affected by annuity benefits elected to be paid from rollover accounts   Coverage of proposed Section 417(e) regulations that explain minimum lump sum rules applicable to bifurcated benefits (i.e., elections to have benefits paid as a combination of an annuity and a lump sum)   Analysis of longevity annuities and qualifying longevity annuity contracts and their impact on required minimum distributions rules within proposed Section 401(a)(9) regulations   Description of Revenue Ruling 2012-3 and the application of QJSA and QPSA rules to investments in deferred annuity contracts   Analysis of Revenue Ruling 2012-4, 2012-8 I.R.B. 386, describing the circumstances under which a defined benefit pension plan may accept a direct rollover from a defined contribution plan maintained by the same employer and provide an annuity attributable to the amount directly rolled over   Discussion of Watson v. Commissioner, in which the Tax Court ruled that the age 55 exception under Section 72(t)(2)(A)(v) to the 10 percent additional income tax on early distributions applies only if the participant is at least age 55 when he or she separates from service   Analysis of Private Letter Ruling 201147038, which holds that sham retirements may not trigger distributions of early retirement benefits from defined benefit pension plans   Description of the change in the District of Columbia's income tax withholding rules applicable to qualified retirement plan distributions   Coverage throughout of new submission requirements for requests for IRS determination and new scope of favorable determination letters

Pension Distribution Answer Book, 2013 Edition

Melanie N. Aska

Carol R. Sears

Tax Law

Aspen Publishers

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