Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing

Cultivating what is right, rather than focusing on what is wrong, for therapy that works.

People enter therapy not just because they are stuck and struggling, but also because they are ready for change and have some hope of experiencing it. That readiness is a manifestation of each person’s innate resilience, their capacity to work on their own behalf to heal.

Many of the common modes of clinical work focus on pathology, the effects of habits or conditions that can be healed through clinical work. Eileen Russell, without discounting the importance of pathology, offers us the idea that the best way to help with what’s going wrong in people’s lives is to build from the foundation of what’s going right. In this book, therapists will learn how to identify the potential for resilience in clients and help them cultivate and deepen it for lasting change.

Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology and affect regulation research, as well as a number of theoretical orientations including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Focusing, attachment theory, and EMDR, Russell provides the essential tools and background for any therapist interested in engaging in resilience-oriented therapy. She includes a wealth of thoughtfully annotated examples from her own clinical work, shares inspiring, illuminating stories of patients who have become more resilient through therapy, and offers many practical tips for clinicians along the way.
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Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing

Cultivating what is right, rather than focusing on what is wrong, for therapy that works.

People enter therapy not just because they are stuck and struggling, but also because they are ready for change and have some hope of experiencing it. That readiness is a manifestation of each person’s innate resilience, their capacity to work on their own behalf to heal.

Many of the common modes of clinical work focus on pathology, the effects of habits or conditions that can be healed through clinical work. Eileen Russell, without discounting the importance of pathology, offers us the idea that the best way to help with what’s going wrong in people’s lives is to build from the foundation of what’s going right. In this book, therapists will learn how to identify the potential for resilience in clients and help them cultivate and deepen it for lasting change.

Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology and affect regulation research, as well as a number of theoretical orientations including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Focusing, attachment theory, and EMDR, Russell provides the essential tools and background for any therapist interested in engaging in resilience-oriented therapy. She includes a wealth of thoughtfully annotated examples from her own clinical work, shares inspiring, illuminating stories of patients who have become more resilient through therapy, and offers many practical tips for clinicians along the way.
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Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing

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Cultivating what is right, rather than focusing on what is wrong, for therapy that works.

People enter therapy not just because they are stuck and struggling, but also because they are ready for change and have some hope of experiencing it. That readiness is a manifestation of each person’s innate resilience, their capacity to work on their own behalf to heal.

Many of the common modes of clinical work focus on pathology, the effects of habits or conditions that can be healed through clinical work. Eileen Russell, without discounting the importance of pathology, offers us the idea that the best way to help with what’s going wrong in people’s lives is to build from the foundation of what’s going right. In this book, therapists will learn how to identify the potential for resilience in clients and help them cultivate and deepen it for lasting change.

Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology and affect regulation research, as well as a number of theoretical orientations including Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Focusing, attachment theory, and EMDR, Russell provides the essential tools and background for any therapist interested in engaging in resilience-oriented therapy. She includes a wealth of thoughtfully annotated examples from her own clinical work, shares inspiring, illuminating stories of patients who have become more resilient through therapy, and offers many practical tips for clinicians along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393706901
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 06/15/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Eileen Russell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is a senior faculty and founding member of the AEDP Institute and has taught and supervised people in AEDP nationally and internationally for many years. She is also an adjunct clinical instructor at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center where she was formerly a Senior Psychologist working with dually diagnosed individuals. Her other research and writing interests include AEDP theory and practice, the integration of psychodynamic understanding with experiential methods, the role of spirituality in psychotherapy and healing, and the "human beingness" of existence and experience.
Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP and editor of Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. She lives and practices in New York.
Daniel Hughes, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author who developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. He lives in Annville, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Foreword xix

Part 1 The Arc of Resilience 1

Introduction 3

a Resilience Is Not Invulnerability 5

b Resilience and AEDP 6

c Restoring Resilience = Change 7

d The Intended Audience for This Book 7

e A Note on Confidentiality 8

f The Arc of Restoring Resilience and the Frame of the Book 9

Chapter 1 Refraining Resilience: Toward a Clinical Understanding 13

a How Therapists Define Resilience 15

b Shifting Focus From Pathology to Healing 17

c The Essence of Resilience 29

d Reflections in the Research Literature 32

e Developing a Common Language: AEDP and the Terminology of Resilience 34

f The Map of Resilience 50

g Defining Resilience in a Clinical Context 51

h Making Room for the Extraordinary and the Natural 56

Part 2 Resilience as Potential 59

Chapter 2 Working With Resilience: Essential Elements and Theoretical Foundations 61

a Secure Attachments and the Foundations of Resilience 62

b The Role of Emotion and Expression in Resilience Processes 69

c The Resilient Individual as an Affective Communication System 71

d Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy 88

Chapter 3 The Self-in-Transition and the Transformational Other 103

a Self-at-Worst and Self-at-Best: Resilience as Potential 106

b The Self-in-Transition: The Real Work of Therapy 117

c The Tranformational Other: The Therapist's Potential 120

d Metatherapeutic Processing: Reflecting on Micro and Macro Moments of Change 123

Part 3 Resilience as Promise 141

Chapter 4 Connection and Coordination in Softening Defenses and Quieting Anxiety 143

a "Using" The Other: Affective Neuroscience and The Polyvagal Theory of Emotion 144

b Coordination, Disruption, & Repair 150

c Clinical Vignette: "The Sinkhole:" Resilience as Promise 155

d Restructuring Defenses and Quieting Anxiety: Getting Out of State 1 173

e Healing Shame: Undoing Aloneness and Working With Toxic Emotions 177

Chapter 5 Recognizing, Facilitating, and Responding to Occasions of Change 183

a The Development of the Resilient Self: What Interpersonal Neurobiology and Affective Neuroscience Have to Say 184

b Change: Inviting It, Marking It, and Expanding It 190

c Clinical Vignette: "Connect With Me": Resilience as Promise 199

Part 4 Resilience as Transformance and Flourishing 221

Chapter 6 Freedom Is Frightening: Trembling and Savoring in the Wake of Transformation 223

a Freedom Is Frightening 225

b The Importance of Open Space 233

c Identification and Elaboration: Recognition and Inter subjectivity in Restoring Resilience 235

d The Triumph of Arriving: The Full Flowering of Transformance 238

e Savoring, Gratitude, and The Practice of Presence 245

f Listening to and Nurturing Desire: The Wellspring of Flow, Creativity, and a Meaningful Life 255

Chapter 7 Fully Human, Fully Alive: Resilience as Transformance and Flourishing 261

a Positive Emotion and Flourishing: Good Feelings in the Course of Growth and Transformation 263

b Mature Resilience and Emotional Complexity 274

c Clinical Vignette: "I Am a Complicated Man": Resilience as Transformance and Flourishing 278

d The Hero's Journey From Mourning to Dancing 284

e Post Traumatic Growth 286

f On Flourishing, Transformance, and Being Complex 287

g Pulling It Together: The Case for a Truly Integrative Approach to Restoring Resilience 290

h The Transformational Spiral From Languishing to Transformance: The Optimal Expression of Resilience 294

Chapter 8 The Resilient Clinician: How Resilience-Oriented Work Transforms the Therapist 299

a Personal Reflections 300

b Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Story of Siobhan 303

c How Resilience-Oriented Therapy Nurtures Therapists 307

d Trusting the Transformational Process 314

References 319

Index 335

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