Relationships in Counseling and the Counselor's Life.

Relationships in Counseling and the Counselor's Life -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- An Unusual Collaboration and an Improbable Partnership -- Overview of What (Mostly) Follows -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part 1: Some Operating Assumptions About Relationships in Counseling -- Chapter 1: What Do We Know, or Think We Know, About How Counseling Works? -- First, a Little History -- The Counseling Relationship and the Era of Accountability: Two Opposing Forces? -- Components of Successful Counseling Relationships -- Identification of Common Factors -- What Makes a Difference in Promoting Change in Counseling? -- Common Factors and Outcome Variance -- Why Don't You Believe Us? -- Chapter 2: What Counselors Believe Matters Most-and Why Their Clients Disagree -- Trying to Figure Out What Happened and Why -- It's My Theoretical Orientation! -- OK, So It's Not My Theory . . . -- So What Is Theory For If It Is Less Important Than We Think? -- "It's My Wisdom and Experience!" -- "It's My Ability to Diagnose!" -- How Do We Determine Accuracy and Consistency? -- Relationship Factors Affecting Client Conceptualization -- Counseling Side Effects -- Chapter 3: Models of Counseling Relationships -- A Smorgasbord of Relational Configurations -- Stages of Relationship -- Relationship Shapes and Sizes -- Empathy as a Unifying Dimension of All Approaches to Counseling -- Expressing Empathy -- The Brain Thrives on Interpersonal Attachments -- It's All About Hope -- Part 2: Relational Strategies and Interventions -- Chapter 4: Skills and Strategies for Promoting Therapeutic Relationships -- How Counseling Reveals Relational Patterns -- Working With Transference Reactions -- Sharing of Self in the Relationship -- Deepening Relationships -- When Techniques Get in the Way.

Chapter 5: Customized Relationships: Differences Within and Between Individuals, Families, Groups, and Cultures -- Exceptions Are the Rules -- Relationships With Groups and Families -- Differences Within and Between Cultures -- Developing Customized Relationships -- Chapter 6: Relational Strategies and Interventions for Trauma -- Relationship Empowered Treatments for Trauma -- Healing Through Presence and Touch -- What's Different About Relationships With Traumatized Clients? -- The Relationship Is a Start, but Is Not Nearly Enough -- Growth and Learning After Trauma: For the Client and the Counselor -- Chapter 7: Exchanging Stories to Solidify and Fortify Counseling Relationships -- The Power of Stories -- Powers of Influence and Persuasion -- Functions of Storytelling in Counseling -- Stories as Coded Packages -- Recommending Stories Outside of Sessions -- Relationships With Stories -- The Desperate Need for Relational Storytelling -- Chapter 8: Innovative, Creative, and Practical Strategies for Enhancing Relational Effects -- Enhancing the Counseling Relationship -- Give It Time -- Spend the First Moments Wisely -- Your Perspective Matters, but Not As Much As You Think -- Empower-and Challenge-Clients -- Being Creative and Innovative -- Application of Established Techniques in Novel Ways -- Taking Risks -- Chapter 9: Boundaries and Barriers Within Counseling Relationships -- Relationships Are Complicated -- Boundary Crossings, Violations, and the Slippery Slope -- Permeable, Fluid Boundaries -- Social Media -- Alternative Delivery Systems -- Location and Context -- Incidental Encounters -- Bartering and Compensation -- Level of Personal Engagement -- Let's Talk About Touching -- Decision Making and Negotiations Related to Boundary Issues -- Part 3: Relationships in the Counselor's Life -- Chapter 10: Processing Disappointments and Failures.

How Do You Know When a Relationship Is Failing? -- Who Are the Difficult Clients Most Likely to Fail? -- How Failures Are Interpreted -- How Failure Helps -- Sometimes We Are Just Wrong -- Working Through Relationship Impasses -- Failures in Supervisory Relationships -- Chapter 11: Conflicts and Struggles in a Counselor's Personal Relationships -- Contagious Effects of the Client's Experience and Influence -- Internal Conflicts and Personal Relationships -- Taking Better Care of Ourselves -- Supervision and Consultation -- Personal and Professional Maintenance -- A Counselor's Personal Traits -- Chapter 12: A Way of Being in All Relationships -- Ending Relationships -- Ending Relationships Smoothly -- The Counselor's Experience of Ending -- Ending Our Relationship -- References -- Index -- Technical Support -- End User License Agreement.

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