The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients

The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck

A concise guide to shaking things up in therapy.
Courtney Armstrongâ€™s The Therapeutic â€œAha!â€ explores the thrilling and rare moment when a client reaches an elusive realization, allowing them to make meaningful change. In 10 straightforward strategies, this practical book demonstrates how to shake things up in therapy when a client is stuck or stalled to jumpstart progress. Readers will learn how to spark the â€œemotional brainâ€â€•the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patternsâ€•and create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process.

Divided into three partsâ€•(1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Changeâ€•the book walks readers through specific techniques for harnessing the emotional brain and re-patterning its routine. Elegant therapeutic insights and coping strategies only go so far; until we intervene with something our emotional brain can understandâ€•a compelling felt experienceâ€•old, established neural patterns will persist. The brain-based strategies Armstrong presents include how to enliven the therapeutic alliance; elicit exciting goals; identify the root of an emotional conflict; reverse trauma with memory reconsolidation; invoke inspirational imagery; and use stories, humor, music, poetry, and even mindfulness to induce change.

Concise, reader-friendly, and filled with helpful case stories and clientâ€“therapist dialogue, this wonderfully accessible book puts a new spin on neuroscience knowledge, showing clinicians exactly how it can be used to make those once-elusive therapeutic breakthroughs more frequent, leading to greater healing for your patients.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780393708400
ReleaseDate 2015-04-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393708400

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780393708400
ReleaseDate	2015-04-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393708400

The Therapeutic "Aha!": 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck

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