The Heroic Client

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A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness Through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy

By Scott D. Miller and Barry L. Duncan and Jacqueline A. Sparks

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The Heroic Client challenges conventional psychological practices that focus on diagnosis and quick fixes, revealing them as ineffective and diminishing the client's role. Authors Duncan and Miller highlight the client's innate ability to drive their own healing, presenting clinical research and case studies that promote partnering with clients as active agents in therapy. This approach aims to revitalise therapy by positioning clients as heroes in their own journeys and ensuring accountability without relying on the medical model.
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The Heroic Client

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This book is ideal for mental health professionals seeking innovative, client-centred therapeutic methods and for students interested in contemporary psychological approaches that empower clients.

Written by psychologists, who are also cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, this book challenges the traditional focus on diagnosis, "silver bullet" techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish the role of clients and hasten therapy's extinction.

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In this controversial book, psychologists Barry Duncan and Scott Miller, cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, challenge the traditional focus on diagnosis, "silver bullet" techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish the role of clients and hasten therapy's extinction.

Instead, they advocate for the long-ignored but most crucial factor in therapeutic success—the innate resources of the client. Based on extensive clinical research and case studies, The Heroic Client not only shows how to harness the client's powers of regeneration to make therapy effective, but also how to enlist the client as a partner to make therapy accountable.

The Heroic Client inspires therapists to boldly rewrite the drama of therapy, recast clients in their rightful role as heroes and heroines of the therapeutic stage, and legitimise their services to third-party payers without the compromises of the medical model.

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Ipnosis praised the book as "Great. Great. Great. Buy. Buy. Buy...one of the few works on therapy which I would attempt to salvage if shipwrecked on a desert island."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787972400

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 March 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 386g

Pages: 288

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Barry L. Duncan Education & Reference Health & Wellness Jacqueline A. Sparks Non-Fiction Scott D. Miller

About the Author

Barry L. Duncan is cofounder and codirector of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change and in private practice in Coral Springs, Florida.

Scott D. Miller is cofounder and codirector of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, in Chicago, Illinois.

Jacqueline A. Sparks is assistant professor of marriage and family therapy, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, at the University of Rhode Island.