Teaching Psychotherapy
Ready to kick-start or re-invigorate your teaching of psychotherapy, whether in the classroom or in a workshop setting? Drawing on over 30 years of experience in teaching graduate level courses in counseling and psychotherapy, as well as literally hundreds of workshops around the world for seasoned psychotherapists, psychologist and author Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD offers in this accessible product a succinct discussion of experiential learning methods to reach and teach learners who differ in their styles for taking in and transforming information. Anchoring teaching in evocative concrete experiences, prompting reflective observations on the part of learners, using these to breathe life into abstract conceptualization, and fostering active experimentation with creative practices, Neimeyer describes how to "teach around the circle" to convey the art as well as the science of effective psychotherapy.
The core of this publication consists of 28 detailed reflective exercises that engage learners in applying to themselves the key therapeutic strategies and techniques associated with a broad spectrum of contemporary approaches to psychotherapy, from psychoanalysis and its relational offshoots, through person-centered, existential humanistic, and narrative constructivist orientations, to behavioral, cognitive-behavioral and brief therapies, as well as family therapy, group therapy, and psychotherapy integration. Each exercise scaffolds between-session personal applications that help students develop a personal acquaintance with actual therapeutic procedures, while also fostering their development as reflective practitioners. Among the techniques included are:
- The Power of Presence
- Personal Theory of Change
- Dream Interpretation
- Free Association
- Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Analysis
- Personal Insight
- Focusing on a Felt Sense
- Self Disclosure
- The Self-Confrontation Method
- Awareness of Personal Mortality
- Chair Work
- Assert Yourself
- Chapters of Our Lives
- Mirror Time
- Therapeutic Journaling
- Making Miracles Happen
- Rituals of Identity
- Work on the Therapist's Own Family
- Our Families, Ourselves
- Where Do I Fit In? A Self-Assessment for Group Therapy
- A Group Observed
- Multimodal Therapy Assessment
- Stages of Change
- Models of Therapy
- A Look in the Rear-View Mirror
Designed as the perfect companion for graduate survey courses in different theories of psychotherapy, Teaching Psychotherapy not only provides handouts to assist the instructor in bringing textbook descriptions of theories and techniques to life, but also serves as a study companion for students or workshop participants. Simply point learners to this site to obtain their own copy of the handouts, providing comprehensive rubrics for their reflective writing across the course of the semester or the sessions of their training.
Format: pdf; 71 pages