The Tactics of Change: Doing Therapy Briefly PDF

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A best-selling, seminal manual on treating a wide range of clinical problems briefly and effectively. Explores the principles of brief therapy and discusses the basic elements of treatment. Examines common situations in therapy and what therapists can do to initiate change.

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• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (May 21, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875895212
• ISBN-13: 978-0875895215
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.4 x 9.4 inches
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The Tactics of Change: Doing Therapy Briefly PDF

A best-selling, seminal manual on treating a wide range of clinical problems briefly and effectively. Explores the principles of brief therapy and discusses the basic elements of treatment. Examines common situations in therapy and what therapists can do to initiate change.

The Tactics of Change: Doing Therapy Briefly in Psychotherapy by John Weak and Lynn Segal was a helpful and informative read. For me, it was sometimes so detailed (or convoluted) that I needed to read over a page or two more than once to understand what they were saying. They really bring a different perspective to approaching therapy than most of the other theories that I have read about, so that made this book a helpful perspective.
I think what comes out most clear after reading this book is that I need to pay attention to the client's behavior and what is sustaining that behavior. Why does that behavior persist? Weak and Segal explain that the persistence of certain behaviors is what is crucial. In this they differ from what they consider to be the norm of labeling any problem encountered as "diagnosis" and then trying to find its basic origin or "etiology." Their basic viewpoint is first, view the problems as essentially behavioral. A problem is something that is done, not something that simply exists. Second, the persistence of a problem (which is a behavior) is what needs to be focused on, not how it began.
One of the main things that make this theory of therapy different is that it is short. It happens usually in no more than ten, one-hour sessions. In the book they dealt with many issues such as anxiety, marital and family conflict, depression, schizophrenia, sexual issues, substance abuse, and even psychosomatic problems. These can all be dealt with in about ten sessions. They insist that the persistence of problems is based on a vicious circle of reciprocal reinforcement between the problem behavior on the one hand and the behavior involved in attempted "solutions" on the other (Kindle, 3399-3401).