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Psychotherapy With "Impossible" Cases: The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans
Psychotherapy With Impossible Cases The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans Author:Barry L. Duncan, Mark A. Hubble, Scott D. Miller 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... more » 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.« less