The Therapeutic "Aha!" : 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck by Courtney Armstrong MOBI, EPUB, PDF
9780393708400 English 0393708403 All clinicians want to be effective and avoid burnout or boredom, particularly in the face of stalling therapy.Here, 10 practical, creative strategies are delivered--like invoking inspirational imagery and using humor, music,and movement--to help spark a client's "emotional brain" and engage and advance the healing process., Courtney Armstrong s The Therapeutic Aha 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 emotional brain the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patterns and create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process. Divided into three parts (1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change 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 understand a compelling felt experience 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 client 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.", Courtney Armstrong's The Therapeutic "Aha!" 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 "emotional brain"--the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patterns--and create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process.Divided into three parts--(1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change--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 understand--a compelling felt experience--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 client-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., Courtney Armstrong's 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 "emotional brain"the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patternsand create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process. Divided into three parts(1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Changethe 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 understanda compelling felt experienceold, 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 clienttherapist 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., Divided into three parts (1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change 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 understand a compelling felt experience 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 client 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. "
9780393708400 English 0393708403 All clinicians want to be effective and avoid burnout or boredom, particularly in the face of stalling therapy.Here, 10 practical, creative strategies are delivered--like invoking inspirational imagery and using humor, music,and movement--to help spark a client's "emotional brain" and engage and advance the healing process., Courtney Armstrong s The Therapeutic Aha 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 emotional brain the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patterns and create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process. Divided into three parts (1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change 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 understand a compelling felt experience 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 client 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.", Courtney Armstrong's The Therapeutic "Aha!" 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 "emotional brain"--the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patterns--and create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process.Divided into three parts--(1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change--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 understand--a compelling felt experience--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 client-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., Courtney Armstrong's 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 "emotional brain"the part of the brain that houses automatic, unconscious patternsand create new neural pathways that engage and advance the healing process. Divided into three parts(1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Changethe 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 understanda compelling felt experienceold, 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 clienttherapist 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., Divided into three parts (1) Awakening a Session, (2) Healing Emotional Wounds, and (3) Activating Experiential Change 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 understand a compelling felt experience 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 client 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. "