Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy

Abstract

* About the Editors * Contributors * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Hospitality * Theory: Beyond Persuasion--Theorizing without Violence * Chapter 1. Construction As Practical Theory: Lessons for Practice and Reflection in Psychotherapy * Persuasion As Pervasive * Providing a Conversational Arena * Construction * Meaning As Relational * From Method to Daily Engagements (Performances) * Construction As Practical Theory * Chapter 2. Therapy Theory After the Postmodern Turn * Our Postmodern Turn * The New Vision of Affirmative Postmodernism * Creating Paralogy * Summary and Conclusion * Chapter 3. Collaboration Within a Pragmatic Tradition: The Psychotherapeutic Legacy of William James * Introduction * If There Was a Jamesian Clinical Tradition ... * Pluralism, Skepticism, and Radical Empiricism--What Might This Mean for a Collaborative Therapy? * Empirically Informed Therapy * Pragmatic Clinical Practice * Conclusion * Chapter 4. Knowing More Than We Can Say * Postmodern Discourse * Trying to Face the Unsayable * Into the Therapist * Toward Practice * Chapter 5. On the Way to Presence: Methods of a Social * Mutual Responsivity * From Fixity to Fluidity, from Entanglements to Self-Respect: Conversational Ethics * Orienting Images and Examples: Methods of a Poetics * Conclusion: The Conversational-Poetic Stance * Therapy: Knowing-With in Therapeutic Practice * Chapter 6. Relational Attunement: Internal and External Reflections on Harmonizing with Clients * Four Ways of Knowing * Slowing Myself Down to Stay Closer to Clients' Meanings * Being Transparent * How Can I Help? * Ways to Ask for Feedback * Closing Moments * Chapter 7. Talking About Knowing-With (Like A Team!) * Chapter 8. A Room of Their Own * Initial Formulation and Application of the Intervention * Subsequent Applications of the Intervention * Theoretical Possibilities: Space, Status, and the Struggle for Recognition * Alternative Applications * Chapter 9. Young People and Adults in a Team Against Harassment: Bringing Forth Student Knowledge and Skill * Working As Adults with a Team of Young People * Stepping Back As Adults * Discovering Student Knowledge * Passing on Student Mediation Knowledge * Team Building * Future Planning and Directions * Trust * Chapter 10. Knowing-With: Moral Questions of Relationship * First Vignette * Second Vignette * Third Vignette * Final Thoughts * Supervision and Training: Relational Practices in Supervision and Training * Chapter 11. Countercultural Therapy: An Attempt to Match Pedagogy to Practice * Chapter 12. Introducing Constructionist and Critical Psychology into Clinical Psychology Training * Introduction * Contexts for Training * Practice Examples in Academic Teaching * Chapter 13. Storying Counselors: Producing Professional Selves in Supervision * Introduction * Counselor Author-ity in Supervision * Some Problems with Developmental Assumptions * Multiple Voices: Producing Possibilities for Practice * Sharing the Cloak: Relational Responsibility in Supervision * Stories for Action: The Work of Supervision * Chapter 14. Power, Gender, and Accountability in Supervision * Historical Context * Mentoring or Monitoring? * Constructions of Power in Supervision * The Project * Findings and Discussion * Conclusion * Chapter 15. Respectful Super-Vision: Avoiding Relational Violence * Deconstructing Super-Vision * Our Supervision History/Herstory: Does It Have Anything to Teach Us? * Preferred versus Nonpreferred Supervisor Adjectives * More Questions to Consider * What Does All This Mean? * Concluding Remark