Collaborative therapy

Abstract: Introduction. Working with Multi-Stressed Families: From Technique to Attitude. What We See Is What We Get: Reexamining Our Assessment Process. Collaboration Is a Two-Way Street: Engaging Reluctant Families. Envisioning New Futures: Developing Collaborative Therapy Contracts with Families. Invitational Interaction: An Anthropological Approach to "Intervening" with Families. Helping Clients Take Apart Old Problems and Put Together New Lives. Elaborating and Solidifying New Lives. Developing Communities to Support New Lives. The Larger Helping System as an Appreciative Audience for New Lives. Envisioning New Futures, Revisioning Human Services.

Abstract: 1. Discursive therapy: Why language, and how we use it in therapeutic dialogues, matters 2. Talking to listen: its pre-history, invention and future in the field of psychotherapy 3. Positioning Theory, narratology and pronoun analysis as discursive therapies 4. Therapeutic Communication from a Constructionist Standpoint 5. Ontological social constructionism in the context of a social ecology: The importance of our living bodies 6. Narrative Therapy: Challenges and communities of practice 7. Collaborative therapy: Performing reflective and dialogic relationships 8. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Listening in the present with an ear toward the future 9. From Wittgenstein, complexity, and narrative emergence: Discourse and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy 10. Activity and performance (and their discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method 11. Developing a 'Just Therapy': Context and the Ascription of Meaning 12. Maori expressions of healing in Just Therapy 13. Systematic narrative review of discursive therapies research: Considering the value of circumstantial evidence 14. Problematising social context in evidence-based therapy evaluation practice/governance 15. The body, trauma, and narrative approaches to healing 16. Narrative, discourse, psychotherapy - neuroscience? 17. Conversation and its therapeutic possibilities

Abstract: Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference provides in-depth accounts of the everyday practice of postmodern collaborative therapy, vibrantly illustrating how dialogic conversation can transform lives, relationships, and entire communities. Pioneers and leading professionals from diverse disciplines, contexts, and cultures describe in detail what they do in their therapy and training practices, including their work with psychosis, incarceration, aging, domestic violence, eating disorders, education, and groups. In addition to the therapeutic applications, the book demonstrates the usefulness of a postmodern collaborative approach to the domains of education, research, and organizations.