[bksvol-discuss] Submitted a Non-Textbooky Textbook
- From: "Natasha Baebler" <guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:11:26 -0500
Hello booksharians,
I just submitted a book written by one of my professors from my rehab
counseling program. The book is called Change-Oriented Therapy with Adolescents
and Young Adults: The Next Generation of Respectful Processes and Practices
and is by Bob Bertolino.
It doesn't read like a text book at all even though that was mostly his intent
for the book. I stripped all headers and junk characters, protected page
numbers and chapter titles, and obviously read it through.
This was one of my more formulating books when I was trying to establish my
counseling philosophy.
Synopsis:
Adolescents and young adults are among the most challenging groups of clients
for a therapist. The normal tumult of the adolescent years can be amplified to
a dangerous degree with the advent of psychological disorders that range from
subclinical depression to hyperactivity disorders, from substance abuse to
anger disorders. Younger clients thus present before the therapist an array of
problematic and potentially frustrating issues. Change-Oriented Therapy With
Adolescents and Young Adults offers a client-informed, outcome- oriented model
for therapy that emphasizes collaboration, competency, and change-affecting
processes with adolescents, young adults, and families. Bertolino writes with
an eye toward the issues faced by contemporary therapists who, confronted with
the pressures of running a clinical practice and dealing with managed care, are
often compelled to keep therapy brief and solution-oriented. In such clinical
situations, results are critical and they must be attained in a relatively
short amount of time. Efficiency and effectiveness must be combined to
facilitate change for younger clients and their families. It is a task that
joins art and science-the flexibility to use various therapeutic modalities and
the willingness to adopt a form of clinical guidance that allows the client to
guide therapy and initiate change. Bertolino guides readers in this new
direction by providing techniques and practical principles that facilitate
transformation. Illustrative question-and-answer segments and case examples
show readers just how change-oriented therapy works and feels in the clinical
setting. Each of these various techniques is presented in the service of
achieving the key therapeutic goals of Bertolino's approach: recognizing
clients as agents of change; honoring the therapeutic relationship and
alliance; allowing client orientations to guides change processes; establishing
a change orientation; working with expectancy, hope, and placebo; and
determining directions, goals, and outcomes. Change-oriented therapy breaks new
ground for both therapists and clients by revising and reintegrating standing
theories and practices. Change-Oriented Therapy With Adolescents and Young
Adults is necessary reading for all therapists working with this client
population.
Should be an easy and informative validation.
Natasha and Guide Dog Fossey
"I want to be successful like everyone does, but through my idea of success. I
don't just mean that I will make a lot of money and be known for what I do, but
that I make a difference in someone's life."
-- Megan Piontek 1985-2008
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