Brief Narrative Practice in Single-Session Therapy

Scot J. Cooper

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032556208
• eBook ISBN: 9781003861386
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Brief Narrative Practice in Single-Session Therapy emphasizes collaboration, meaning making, and relational ethics in single-session conversations. Chapters provide a thorough orientation to the therapy and address the diverse circumstances clinicians face in these conversations.

Separating from many long-held traditions in therapy, this book explores a guiding framework and the accompanying micro-skills that therapeutic conversations demand. In these pages, readers will learn how to recalibrate their listening habits and talk differently about problems in ways that help them quickly hear and generate possibilities.

All those who provide psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching in time-constrained contexts will find this book useful and engaging, including those working in crisis and call-in settings, walk-in clinics, medical centres, and live-in contexts where change conversations are brief.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note to Readers
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Landscape
• Chapter 2 Key Concepts in Brief Narrative Therapy
• Chapter 3 Re-Visioning the Therapeutic Context
• Chapter 4 Calibrating Your Brief Narrative Ear
• Chapter 5 Phase One: Beginnings
• Chapter 6 Phase Two: Meaning Generation and Story Expansion
• Chapter 7 Phase Three: Conversation Endurance
• Chapter 8 Co-Crafting Take-Away Documents
• Chapter 9 Leave-Behind Documents
• Chapter 10 Externalizing Conversations
• Chapter 11 Counter-Storying in Single Session Therapy
• Chapter 12 Addressing the Effects of Trauma in a Single Session
• Chapter 13 The Game Plan
• Chapter 14 Re-membering Conversations
• Chapter 15 Single Session Therapy and Crisis Conversations
• Chapter 16 Navigating Children’s Experience of Separation/Divorce
• Chapter 17 Developing Concepts for Living
• Chapter 18 Quality Assurance in Single Session Therapy
• Chapter 19 Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Drop-In Therapy Clinic Participant Questionnaire, Parent/Guardian
• Appendix 2: Drop-In Therapy Clinic Participant Questionnaire, Child/Youth
• Appendix 3: Conversation Summary
• Appendix 4: Single Session Impressions and Feedback Tool (SSIFT)©
• Index