Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change

$38.00

by Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013) 288 Pages, Hardcover Ann Weiser Cornell, who has been teaching Focusing to clinicians for over 30 years, shows step by step how to bring Focusing into any kind of clinical practice. Designed to be immediately useful to working clinicians, this book shows how to help clients get felt senses and nurture them when they appear, how to work with clients who have difficulty feeling in the body, how to support clients who experience dysregulating emotional states, and more. Plentiful examples and vignettes show specifically how the process works at the moment-by-moment level.

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List of Chapters:

  • Introduction: A Doorway in a Moment
  • Chapter 1:    The Essence of Change
  • Chapter 2:    Setting the Stage: Getting Ready to Bring Focusing Into Client Sessions
  • Chapter 3:    Recognizing and Nurturing Felt Senses
  • Chapter 4:    Helping Clients to Get Felt Senses
  • Chapter 5:    Fostering the Client’s Strong Self: The Essential Environment for Felt Senses
  • Chapter 6:    Going Deeper: Facilitating the Felt Shift
  • Chapter 7:    Working With More Challenging Types of Clients
  • Chapter 8:    Focusing With Trauma, Addictions, Depression
  • Chapter 9:    Blending Focusing with Different Therapeutic Modalities
  • Chapter 10:  Focusing for the Therapist
Weight 1.31 oz
Dimensions 12 × 10 × 1 in

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