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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.8914 EAN: 9780393702460 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393702464 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 222 Publication Date: 1997-04 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Related Items:
Editorial Review: Book Description: A new approach, based on a five-year clinical study, for clients who have not responded to treatment. Therapy veterans are "impossible" clients--those who are unmoved by the therapist's treatment techniques and thus become mired in a therapeutic impasse. This book convinces readers that successful treatment can occur when therapy is accommodated to the client's frame of reference and the client's theory of change is honored, and it demonstrates how to do this. Whether a therapist uses this model as a creative "last-resort approach" or as a preferred method of treatment, a new direction will be forged, making the impossible possible. Several riveting, full-length cases clearly illustrate this new approach. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Stop Shifting Responsibility For The Failure of The Theory!An inspirational follow-up to Escape from Babel: this book gives both a robust challenge to the phenomenon of resistance and the labelling of some therapy veterans as `impossible' cases. Over the five-year study period, the authors encouraged other therapists and agencies to refer `impossible' cases - known in the UK as `heartsink' clients - to them. Anne Wilson Schaef argues that there would be fewer `impossible' or `untreatable' clients if those responsible for their care had to re-frame this impossibility ... Read More Rating: - Hard Cases Can Make the Best Teachers if We're TeachableDuncan, Miller and Hubble keep writing books that explain why therapists would be wise to spend more time listening to their clients theories about how therapy can help and how the therapist can be most helpful than by listening to the theories in their own heads that tell them what to do to "fix" or change their clients. This book is one of several written by these folks and like the others they can guide you to becoming more effective in your professional work. Their concept of the "Client's Theory of Change" ... Read More Rating:  - Acceptance and validationThis wonderful book takes you out of the box! "Impossible cases might no longer be a luxury we can afford," the authors begin, because of Managed Care, they continue, but when COULD we afford "impossible cases"? We're talking about people and their lives after all. "Historically," they continue, "impossibility has been located in the client." And the self-fulfillingness of the diagnosis of "impossible" is also discussed. You can see they aren't afraid to take on sacred elephants! In case ... Read More Rating: - Duncan, Miller and Hubble have done it again!Psychotherapy with "Impossible" Cases is a book that makes a therapist feel like he or she has the best possible occupation. It is a call to remember both the resources all human beings bring to their life experiences, and the potential pitfalls of getting mired solely in the medical model perspective of change. Duncan et al., give inspiring case examples to portray the importance of sincerely reflecting all persons' dignity back to them in the therapy process, regardless of the complaint/diagnosis. In addition, ... Read More Rating: - The richest casesThis book clearly expressed the passions that the authors have for doing good therapy. The cases were described with such richness, great detail. Once again, the authors challenge the everyday thinking of how to do therapy and lend some inspiration for tackling challenges. 
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