The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families

by Jim Wilson

Overview

This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855755260
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2007
Series:	The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Wilson is a Consultant Psychotherapist with Foster Care Associates and in this capacity he also provides training, consultation and practice projects throughout the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Ireland. Increasingly he has been asked to provide workshops seminars and conferences about his approach to colleagues in Belgium, Germany and the USA. His publications span the last eighteen years, covering his interests in the training of family therapists and the enhancement of practice. His book Child Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach (Karnac, 1998) focuses on the enhancement of practice with children in therapy. In his other book, The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of the Family Therapist, he turns to enlarging the scope of family therapy practice and the development of the therapist's personal style.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword — Foreword — Introduction — Enhancing the Repertoire of Theory — Pride and prejudice in family therapy theories — Enhancing the Repertoire of Practice — The emergence of Systemic Focused Drama: creating a sense of occasion — Situating Systemic Focused Dramas — Systemic Focused Drama: modes and applications — Stories and their performance — Enhancing the Use of Self in Practice — The therapist and the performance of practice — Six Scales for Reflection on practice — As the curtain falls . . .