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Overview
Examine the dynamic role of creativity in therapy!
Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals, Couples, and Families examines the nature, role, and importance of creative thinking in counseling and therapy. Authors David K. Carson and Kent W. Becker combine extensive backgrounds in marriage and family therapy and counseling to give you a unique resource that fills a crucial gap in the therapy literature. The book explores various aspects of creative thinking, personal characteristics of highly creative therapists, creative techniques and interventions, barriers to creative work, and creativity development. Not designed as a cookbook for conducting therapy, Creativity in Psychotherapy features practical techniques and interventions for conducting therapy with children, adults, couples, and families.
Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals, Couples, and Families is a much-needed response to the need for a pragmatic approach that makes sense, using methods, techniques, and applications based in respected, established theoretical principles and empirical research. The book establishes a mind-set the therapist can use to work with clients in discovering creative solutions, instead of viewing creative interventions as a grab bag of techniques. Creativity in Psychotherapy includes:
- a look at the various dimensions of creativity in counseling and psychotherapy
- an overview of the relationship between creativity and healthy functioning
- an examination of the connection between creativity and dysfunction
- a review of the role of creativity in supervision
- a survey of 142 therapists in the United States on the use of creativity in their practices
- in-depth discussions, practical examples, and illustrations
- Creative Incubation and Break Out of The Box exercises in each chapter!
Editorials
Samuel T. Gladding
EXCITING, INVITING, INTRIGUING, INFORMATIVE, AND INNOVATIVE. . . . Presents new insight on the subject and how it contributes to health and healing. Unlike other books on the subject, this work simultaneously operates on cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels and presents its material to readers through interactive means. The authors orient readers at the beginning of each chapter with a 'creativity incubation' exercise. They also help readers become more creative in breaking out of their set ways of seeing and being by offering opportunities for further growth at the end of every chapter.—PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling, Wake Forest University
William M. Walsh
An OUTSTANDING new addition to the therapy literature. Long overlooked or trivialized by professionals in many disciplines, creativity may well be our best hope or a healthy and rewarding future. VERY READABLE, YET THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED AND WELL-ORGANIZED. In the intervention chapters, there is a good review of prominent techniques in major models of family therapy, and a long list of ideas for creating your own activities and interventions. The chapter on creativity in supervision also emphasizes the reader's personal creative process, and provides unusual depth and breadth. THIS IS A UNIQUE BOOK FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, SUPERVISORS, AND CLINICIANS. If you are one of these, reading this book will cause you to reflect on your own life and your professional practice, and come away stimulated and enriched. It will refresh your mind and energize your work whether you are practicing, teaching, or supervising therapy. What more can you ask?—PhD, Professor of Counseling Psychology and Director of Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Northern Colorado