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Author Wessler, Richard L.

Title Succeeding with difficult clients : applications of cognitive appraisal therapy / Richard Wessler, Sheenah Hankin, Jonathan Stern.

Publication Info. San Diego : Academic Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 340 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Practical resources for the mental health professional
Practical resources for the mental health professional.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334) and indexes.
Contents Cognitive appraisal theory. What makes difficult clients difficult -- Motivation and attachment -- Basic CAT concepts: personotypic affect, justifying cognitions, and security-seeking behaviors -- Patterns of personality -- The difficult client revisited -- Cognitive appraisal therapy. The CAT assessment -- Interventions based on the CAT model -- Affect-based interventions -- Additional interventions involving cognition, behavior, adjunctive medication, and therapeutic impasses -- The process of CAT (case studies) -- Applications of CAT. CAT with personality-disordered clients -- Working with borderline personality-disordered clients -- Couples therapy -- CAT group therapy -- Working with "difficult" parents.
Summary "I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas. The authors' experience with difficult clients -- uncooperative, hostile, uncommitted to change -- gave them a new perspective on working with therapeutic impasses. Papers describing Cognitive Appraisal Therapy have appeared in many books and journals, and now for the first time these ideas are compiled into a single volume. Heavily influenced by the psychothe.
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Subject Cognitive therapy.
Cognitive therapy.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy.
Aggressiveness.
Aggressiveness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- methods.
Patient Compliance -- psychology.
Defense Mechanisms.
Patients -- psychology.
Personality.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hankin, Sheenah.
Stern, Jonathan.
Other Form: Print version: Wessler, Richard L. Succeeding with difficult clients. San Diego : Academic Press, 2001 012744470X (DLC) 2001088744 (OCoLC)47063434
ISBN 0585492190 (electronic book)
9780585492193 (electronic book)
0080518117
9780080518114
9780127444703
012744470X