Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations

Unusual Interventions to Help Clients

Michael Hoyt, Monte Bobele, Michael Hoyt, Monte Bobele

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429647550
• Print ISBN:
  9780367138097
• Subtopic: Diseases & Allergies

Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations introduces readers to the innovative approaches that therapists sometimes take when standardized, paint-by-numbers routines don't work. Each chapter presents the story of one or more difficult psychotherapy situations followed by the therapists' descriptions of what they did and why, as well as the outcome that resulted. The authors and their stories span a wide variety of theoretical approaches and contexts, showing how clinicians can improvise beyond everyday scenarios and techniques. This collection of provocative, instructive vignettes from well-known practitioners often generates "You said what?!" reactions while encouraging readers to think creatively in the moment in order to reach healthy, innovative outcomes from the trickiest and most unexpected therapeutic scenarios.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Epigraph
• 1 “You Said What?”: Introduction and Invitation
• 2 The Accidental Drug Dealer
• 3 A Different Kind of Education
• 4 On a Small Island off the Coast of Texas
• 5 A Violent Life
• 6 Transforming Trauma and the Migration of Identity: Accepting the “Call” from Outside the Cave
• 7 Heating Up to Cool Down: An Encountering Approach to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy
• 8 Looking “Outside the Box” for Client Strengths
• 9 The Rock-n-Rollers Remixed: Back to the Future
• 10 Going “One-Down”
• 11 “No Way – You Gotta Be Kidding!”: Using Ordeals to Promote Problem-Stopping
• 12 However Great the Question, It’s the Answer That Makes a Difference
• 13 120 Centimeters from Sainthood
• 14 Random Effects of Ambiguity Along the Pathway Toward Health
• 15 When Impatience Gets the Best of Me
• 16 The Single Stroke: What Makes “Zingers” Zing?
• 17 Our Clients Are Able and Strong: MRI Problem-Solving Brief Therapy in Action
• 18 Frida Kahlo is Sassy
• 19 Beyond Reason and Insight: The 180-Degree Turn in Therapeutic Interventions
• 20 They Said What?: Themes and Lessons
• Index