Integrating Social Cognition into Therapeutic Practice: Beneath and Beyond the Process of Therapy

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This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice. Building on the micro-skills framework for training, the author adds cognitive modifiability theories to create a social cognition approach to training and practice. The material has been field tested in a graduate academic context and in consultation in mental health settings, and chapters contain didactic explications, illustrative examples, practice exercises, and graphic schemas to help readers integrate specific practices into a broader comprehensive theoretical framework. Mental health professionals and students in advanced counseling courses will find that this book broadens their perspectives beyond basic micro-skills approaches and provides an expansive and systematic framework for conceptualizing the therapeutic process. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures Foreword Preface 1 Formulating the Process of Counseling: The Dynamics of Behavioral Change 2 A Theoretical Foundation for the Therapeutic Process: Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) 3 Applying MLE to the Therapeutic Process 4 Social Cognition: A Foundation for Affective and Behavioral Change 5 Translating Social Cognition into Treatment Planning 6 Application of an Integrative Model to the Therapeutic Process 7 The Phases of the Therapeutic Relationship Reflected in the Integrative Model 8 The Focus of the Interaction: Content versus Process 9 The Nature of the Therapeutic Response: Implicit versus Explicit 10 Application of the Model Appendix A: Formulating Responses Reflecting the MLE Parameters Appendix B: Illustrative Case Studies Appendix C: Glossary References Index