Developmental Strategies for Helpers: Individual, Family, and Network Interventions

Highly practical, this book shows how to integrate developmental theory into counseling and clinical practice. It focuses on the "hard stuff" and this is where the Developmental Counseling and Therapy model has consistently been found effective and highly useful. Research is coming more and more to validate this new model of human change.

Full of specifics, this book can be a groundbreaking experience for your students and for clinical practice.

Contents:

1. Our Developmental Nature 2. Assessing Developmental Level in the Interview and Daily Life 3. Developmental Strategis: Specific Intervention to Facilitate Client Cognitive and Affective Development 4. Confrontation and Perturbation: Creation of the New 5. Development Over the Life Span 6. Using DCT with Personality Disorders: A Positive Developmental View 7. Multicultural Development 8. Network Interventions and DCT 9. Developing and Supervising Helping Professionals

Instructor Guide Available as well as videotape examples of the process in action.