Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-373) and index.

Machine generated contents note: The Problem of the Sorcerer's Apprentice -- Learning from Experts-Those Who Demonstrate Their Effectiveness -- How Do Master Clinicians Achieve Mastery? -- Learning to Think Like a Therapist: The Characteristics of Expert Therapist Thinking and Why It Is Important -- Linear versus Nonlinear Thinking -- Nonlinear Thinking -- Clinical Case Example: A Broken Heart and Obsessing -- Am I a Nonlinear Thinker? -- Exercising Your Nonlinear Thinking -- Expertise and Learning How to Think Like a Practitioner -- How We Will Do It: Development of Mastery and Deliberate Practice -- So How Will We Do This? -- The Purpose of This Book -- The Current State of Psychotherapy -- Therapy Is Effective in Helping People with Mental Disorders, Adjustment Problems, and Relational Difficulties in Life -- Therapy Can Be Effective Quickly and Is a Cost-Effective Treatment -- Despite These Potential Benefits, Therapy Is Ineffective and Underutilized --

Contents note continued: The Painful Truth: Effective Therapy Is Not Being Provided on a Consistent Basis -- Improving the Process of Learning How to Become an Effective Therapist: Proposed Solutions and Their Limitations -- The Movement toward Manualization or Evidence-Based Psychological Practices -- The Search for an Integrated Approach to Therapy -- Research and the Convergence of Understanding: Learning and Understanding the Seven Domains of Competence -- What Are Domains? -- What Domains Are Not -- Introducing the Seven Domains of Competence -- A Developmental Model of Therapist Growth: Guiding the Reader through the Learning Process to Help Speed Understanding of the Seven Domains of Competence and Nonlinear Thinking -- Stoltenberg's Developmental Model -- Integrating Stoltenberg's Developmental Model with the Seven Domains -- Conclusion -- Self-versus-Other Focus -- Anxiety -- The Quest for Perfection -- Insecurity -- Underdeveloped Sense of Clinical judgment --

Contents note continued: Where to Begin? -- Introduction: The Mob Boss Is Your Client -- Clinician Attitude and Disposition: Curiosity -- Listening -- How Do You Listen in a Linear Way? -- Listening for Content or Information -- Listening for Feelings -- How to Listen in a Nonlinear Way -- Congruence (i.e., Correspondence-or Lack of Correspondence-between What Is Said and What Is Meant) -- Listening for Absence (i.e., What Is Not Said-by Silence, Avoidance, or Information Overload) -- Listening for Presence (Nonverbal Behaviors That Add Meaning) -- Listening for Inference (The Purpose behind "I Don't Want..." Statements) -- Listening for Resistance: The Desire Not to Change-, -- Our Nonlinear Brain: Mirror Neurons and Connecting with a Client -- Possible Meanings Associated with Statements in Clinical Exercise: Beginning the Use of Nonlinear Thinking -- Introduction -- Linear Responding -- Responding to Content or-Information -- Responding to Feelings --

Contents note continued: Advanced Linear responding -- Nonlinear Responding -- Nonlinear Responding to Incongruence (i.e., "I Hear-That There Is More Than One Side to This.") -- Nonlinear Responding to Absence (i.e., "I See What You Are Not Showing Me.") -- Nonlinear Responding to Presence (i.e., "I See What Your Body-Is Saying Even if You Don't.") -- Nonlinear Responding to Inference (i.e., "I Hear What You Are Not Saying.") -- Nonlinear Responding to Resistance (i.e., "I Understand That You Might Not Be Ready for This.") -- Conclusion -- Introduction: Every Story Must Have a Beginning, Middle, and an End -- Assessing the Client: Symptoms, Diagnoses, Strengths, and (Untapped) Resources -- Linear Methods of Assessment: Looking for Symptoms and Diagnoses -- The Goal of the Biopsychosocial Interview -- Linear Methods of Assessment: Looking for Strengths and Resources -- Nonlinear Methods of Assessing for Strengths and Resources -- Looking for Unused or Misused Power --

Contents note continued: Connecting with Untapped Social Supports -- Assessing a Client's Readiness for Change: The Stages of Change Model -- Precontemplation -- Contemplation -- Preparation for Action -- Action -- Maintenance -- Relapse -- How to Identify a Client's Stage of Change -- Moving through the Stages of Change -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Assessment: The Theme behind a Client's Narrative -- Theme of Desperation: "I Have a Problem That I Need to Work On!" -- Theme of Helplessness: The Symptom Is Out of Control ("I Can't Help Myself") -- Theme of Hopelessness: "I Have a Chronic Problem" -- Theme of Defensiveness: "Who or What Is the Problem? (Cause It's Not Me!)" -- Theme of Exhaustion: Being Overwhelmed (Physically, Emotionally, and/or Psychologically) -- Theme of Despair: The Experience of Loss -- Theme of Fear and Confusion: Double Binds -- Therapeutic Goals -- Making Good Therapeutic Goals -- Treatment Plans -- What Happens When Goals Don't Align? --

Contents note continued: Conclusion -- Introduction: The King's Speech -- Research Findings: The Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance -- Factors that Contribute to the Therapeutic Relationship -- Selected Findings of the First Task Force (2002) -- Selected Findings of the Second Task Force (2011) -- Demonstrably Effective Element of the Therapeutic Relationship: The Therapeutic Alliance -- Positive Affective Bond -- Therapeutic Tasks -- Consensus on Goals -- Research on the Therapeutic Alliance -- Conclusions on the Therapeutic Alliance -- Demonstrably Effective Element of the Therapeutic Relationship: Empathy -- Empathic Rapport -- Communicative Attunement -- Person Empathy -- Demonstrably Effective Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship: Collecting Client Feedback -- Probably Effective Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship: Positive Regard -- Conclusion -- Introduction --

Contents note continued: Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Congruence/Genuineness -- Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Managing Transference and Countertransference -- Countertransference -- Promising Elements of the Therapeutic Relationship (But Insufficient Research to Judge): Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance -- Therapeutic Ruptures and Nonlinear Thinking -- Identifying Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance -- Repairing Ruptures to the Therapeutic Alliance -- Methods of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship -- Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Reactance/Resistance -- Reactance -- Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Client Preference -- Demonstrably Effective Method of Adapting the Therapeutic Relationship: Culture/Religion/Spirituality -- Ethically Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship --

Contents note continued: Boundary and Role Management I Boundaries -- Ethics and Boundaries -- Boundary and Role Management II Multiple Roles -- Flexibility of Boundaries -- Boundary and Role Management III Therapist Self-Disclosure -- Harm from Disclosure -- What Not to Do in a Therapeutic Relationship -- Conclusion -- Focus of Attention -- Decreased Level of Anxiety -- The Development of Understanding and Nonlinear Thinking -- Introduction: The Shawshank Schema -- What Are Schemas? Where Do They Come from? -- Three General Characteristics of Schemas -- A Historical Overview of Schemas in Therapy -- Schemas Help Guide Our Responses to New Experiences -- Personality Development and Core Schema Dynamics -- View of Self -- View of Self and Optimism -- View of Self and the Family of Origin -- View of Others -- View of Others: Positive or Negative -- View of Others and the Family of Origin -- View of the World and View of Life -- View of Life and the World, and Family of Origin --

Contents note continued: Universal Characteristics of Schemas -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Schema Dynamics and Cognitive Distortions -- Schema Dynamics, Cognitive Distortions, and Psychological Disorders -- Schema Dynamics and the Development of Personality Disorders -- Linear Thinking, Listening, and Responding to Core Client Schemas -- Nonlinear Thinking, Listening, and Responding to Core Client Schemas -- Rigid Schema Dynamics and Linear and Nonlinear Listening. Absolutes, Dichotomies, Extremes, Polarities, and Exclusionary Thinking -- Elements of Formal Assessment in Understanding a Client's Schema Dynamics -- Readiness for Change -- Client Resources -- Themes -- Client Goals -- Using the Therapeutic Relationship to Better Understand a Client's Schema Dynamics -- Therapeutic Alliance -- Therapeutic Ruptures and Client Schemas -- Utilizing Assessment of Client Schema Dynamics -- Using Family-of-Origin Dynamics to Understand Client Schema Dynamics --

Contents note continued: Sibling Position and the Development of Schemas -- Early Childhood Recollections -- Collecting ECRs -- Clinically Working with a Client's Schema Dynamics -- Assimilation, Accommodation, and Green Eggs and Ham -- Linear Methods of Intervening with Client Schema: Facilitating Assimilation -- Assimilation and First-Order Change -- Nonlinear Methods of Intervening with Client Schema: Facilitating Accommodation -- Metaphor and Second-Order Change -- Putting the Pieces of the Client's Story Together: The Formulation and Case Conceptualization -- Conclusion -- Introduction: Good Will Hunting and Emotions -- But What Are Emotions? -- Lingering Misperceptions of Emotions -- Emotions Are, Weak, Feminine, and to Be Feared -- Catharsis of Emotion as Sufficient for Change -- Emotions Are to Be Avoided, Contained, and Neutralized in Treatment --

Contents note continued: Understanding and Differentiating: Expressions of Affect, Internal Feelings, Emotional States and Moods, Primary Emotions, Secondary Emotions, and Background Emotions -- Expressions of Affect -- Internal Feelings -- Emotional States -- Primary Emotions -- Secondary Emotions -- Background Emotions or Mood -- Emotions, Mood, and Affect -- The Appraisal Process -- Primary Appraisals and Assessment of Threats and Benefits -- Secondary Appraisals and Responses to Threats -- Problem-Focused versus Emotion-Focused Coping -- The Relationship between Schema;, Appraisal, Emotions, and Behavior -- The Link between Common Negative Emotions and Psychological Disorders in Counseling -- The Continuum from Fear to Anxiety -- The Continuum from Sadness to Depression -- The Continuum from Anger to Chronic Impulsivity -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Using Other Domains in Dealing with Clients' Emotions -- Listening and Responding --

Contents note continued: The Therapeutic Relationship and Emotions -- Emotion-Focused Therapy Using the Relationship between Emotions and Schema Dynamics -- EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Coaching the Therapist's Approach to Working Successfully with Emotions -- EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Focusing to Foster Recognition and Reflection of Emotions -- EFT-Therapeutically Working with Emotions: Revelation, Reflecting, and Focusing -- Using Mindfulness to Help Clients Understand and Manage Emotions Therapeutically -- Definition of Mindfulness -- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy-Basic Mindfulness and Getting Emotional Distance -- Using Elements of Acceptance and Commitment therapy to Therapeutically Work with Emotions -- Acceptance -- Cognitive Diffusion -- Contact with the Present Moment -- Observing the Self as Context -- Values -- Committed Action -- Using Elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to Therapeutically Work with Emotions --

Contents note continued: Mindfulness -- Distress Tolerance -- Emotion Regulation -- Interpersonal Effectiveness -- Conclusion -- Introduction: Odysseus's Dilemma -- Understanding Clinical Ambivalence -- Definition -- Types of Ambivalence -- What Ambivalent Rats Can Tell Us about Human Behavior? -- Linear and Nonlinear Views of Ambivalence -- Listening for and Recognizing Ambivalence -- Listening for Congruence -- Listening for Absence -- Listening for Inference -- Listening for Presence -- Listening for Resistance -- Stages of Change and Ambivalence -- What about the Therapeutic Relationship? -- Schema Dynamics and Ambivalence -- Emotions and Emotional Reactions -- Behavioral Manifestations of Ambivalence -- Flight into Illness and Flight into Health -- Secondary Gain -- Double Binds (Revisited) -- Take Aways for Practitioners -- Conclusion -- Answer to Buridan's Bridge -- Introduction: The Kobayashi Maru --

Contents note continued: Linear Strategies and Interventions to Manage and Resolve Client Ambivalence -- Resolving Ambivalence: Holding a Mirror up to a Client -- Awareness, Ambivalence, and Effective Treatment -- Pacing, Reactance, and Nonlinear Thinking -- Nonlinear Approaches: Using Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy Methods to Help Manage and Resolve Ambivalence -- The Miracle Question -- Scaling Questions -- Externalizing the Problem -- Nonlinear Approaches: Using Motivational Interviewing to Help Manage and Resolve Ambivalence -- OARS: Basic Motivational Interviewing Methods -- Using Reflection and Responses beyond Reflection to Address Ambivalence -- Rolling with the Resistance -- Developing Discrepancies -- Listening for and Eliciting Change Talk -- Successful Resolution of Ambivalence -- Take Aways for Practitioners -- Conclusion -- Nonlinear Thinking and the Domains of Competence Revisited -- So What Is the Point to All This? --

Contents note continued: The Disengagement/Engagement Hypothesis -- Disengagement through Linear and Nonlinear Understanding -- Disengagement Facilitated through the Therapeutic Relationship and Therapeutic Alliance -- Disengagement through Externalization of the Symptom -- Disengagement through Focusing Outward versus Focusing Inward -- Engagement, Nonlinear Thinking, and Second-Order Change: Effective Means and Effective Ends -- Engagement -- Definition of Engagement -- Encouraging Engagement through Specific Therapeutic Goals -- Making Progress Not Seeking Perfection -- Engagement through Affirmation and Reaffirmation of Assets and Resources -- Engagement through Mindfulness/Self-Encouragement/Self-Soothing -- The Final Secret: Deliberate Practice and Back to the Sorcerer's Apprentice.