Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear and concise description of the multifaceted notion of psychotherapeutic competencies, building on years of research and training and informed by a systemic approach.
Psychotherapeutic Competencies clearly describes methodological principles to guide both trainees and experienced therapists through the definition of four levels of systemic competencies and illustrates each principle with compelling clinical case material. The book emphasises the need for therapists to develop relational skills, which allow for the consolidation of a trusting relationship in which change can take place, as well as acquiring a set of methods and techniques. Psychotherapeutic Competencies encourages therapists of all levels of experience and therapeutic backgrounds to develop epistemological competency and to deepen their awareness of the extended contexts in which they operate and of the possible effects of their practice at a social and cultural level.
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Trade Review
"This excellent book is a guide to becoming competent in using systemic therapy to help individuals, couples, and families. It integrates key themes from the fields of psychotherapy and research. Complex ideas and practices are illustrated with case examples. This book is a gem, clearly written, insightful, and a ‘must read’ for students, trainers, and experienced couple and family therapists."
Professor Alan Carr, University College Dublin
"Building on the senior author’s outstanding scholarship, Psychotherapeutic Competencies illuminates the conceptual cores of avant garde systemic practices, to then anchoring them with vivid excerpts of clinical practice. A brilliant, important book."
Carlos E. Sluzki, MD George Washington University
"Psychotherapeutic Competencies is an appetizing addition to the menu of psychotherapy, appealing to many palates. Traditional dishes from systemic practice: hypothesizing, curiosity, and questions are refreshed and enhanced by contemporary flavours of therapeutic relationships and spiced by research and evidence."
John Burnham, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital
Table of ContentsPart 1: Technical Competency In Systemic Practice: The Dialogical Construction Of A Shared Symbolic Space 1. From diagnosis to care 2. Technical support for dialogical competency Part 2: Relational Competency: Promoting And Analyzing Intersubjectivity 3. The therapeutic alliance 4. The construction of transformative interactive contexts Part 3: Epistemological Competency: Enabling A Change Of Viewpoint 5. Reflexivity: becoming aware of one’s own premises 6. Complex thinking: The exploration of different perspectives 7. Curiosity and decentring: distinguishing reasons from solutions Part 4: Acknowledging The Context: The Social Dimension Of Psychotherapy 8. Relational interdependence and triadic co-evolution 9. Constructing networks 10. The Multi-process analysis Conclusion Beyond Psychotherapy
