Like its predecessor, Constructive Therapies, Volume 1, this engaging book presents a range of creative, time-effective approaches for helping clients build on their competencies and develop their own solutions. In-depth interviews with Michael White, Steve de Shazer, Bill O'Hanlon, Donald Meichenbaum, and Kenneth Gergen are incorporated with other clinicially oriented chapters from well-known therapists. Topics covered include different styles of constructive therapy, the externalization and deconstruction of problems, narrative work with ADHD-diagnosed children, a solution-focused approach for dealing with cases of domestic violence, EMDR and the MRI interactional approach, actualizing the empty self in psychotherapy, emotional and spiritual healing, and more. Illustrative case examples are featured throughout.
1. Introduction: Some Stories Are Better than Others, Michael F. Hoyt 2. On Ethics and the Spiritualities of the Surface: A Conversation with Michael White, Michael F. Hoyt and Gene Combs 3. Solution Building and Language Games: A Conversation with Steve de Shazer, Michael F. Hoyt 4. Welcome to Possibilityland: A Conversation with Bill O'Hanlon, Michael F. Hoyt 5. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective: A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum, Michael F. Hoyt 6. Consulting the Problem about the Problematic Relationship: An Exercise for Experiencing a Relationship with an Externalized Problem, Sallyann Roth and David Epston 7. Narrative Approaches with Children Labeled "ADHD," David Nylund and Victor Corsiglia 8. A Solution-Focused Approach to Safety in Cases of Domestic Violence, Charles E. Johnson and Jeffrey Goldman 9. When the Past is Present: A Conversation about EMDR and the MRI Interactional Approach, Clifford Levin, Francine Shapiro, and John Weakland 10. The Relational Self: The Expanding of Love Beyond Desire, Stephen G. Gilligan 11. No Self? No Problem! Actualizing Empty Self in Psychotherapy, Robert Rosenbaum and John Dyckman 12. Core Transformation: A Brief Therapy Approach to Emotional and Spiritual Healing, Connirae Andreas and Tamara Andreas 13. A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (With Footnotes for Baseball Fans), Michael F. Hoyt 14. Three Styles of Constructive Therapy, Haim Omer 15. Resource-Focused Therapy, Bradford Kenney and Wendel Ray 16. Postmodernism, the Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, and Beyond: A Conversation with Gergen, Michael F. Hoyt Appendix A: Songs for Constructive Therapists Appendix B: Unmuddying the Waters
