Main description:

Written in an easy and relaxed style using everyday language, this manual illustrates how to actively take a person's resources into consideration during therapy and counseling sessions, and how to integrate them into existing intervention concepts. The first part illustrates approaches that can be used to focus attention on assessment and dialog, and that shed light on a person's individual resources from various angles. These therapeutic approaches can be used in the framework of existing manuals and guidelines to focus on how to do things. The second part illustrates procedures offering a framework for further applying the different perspectives and provides sample worksheets for practical use.

Contents:

1 Systematic Resource Analysis; 1.1 Resource Priming; 2 Resource-Oriented Dialog Strategies; 2.1 Perceiving and Strengthening Directly Available Resources and Actively Introducing Unused Resources; 2.2 Verbalizing Resources and Immediately Experiencing Resources; 2.3 Using Potential Resources and Integrating Motivational Resources; 2.4 Strengthening Personal Resources and Furthering the Available Resources of the Social Network; 2.5 Focusing on Problem-Independent Resources and Taking Advantage of Problem-Relevant Resources; 2.6 Optimizing Usable Resources and Boosting and Maintaining Trainable Resources; 2.7 Perspectives as Heuristics for Directing Attention; 2.8 Resource-Orientation - Putting the Cart Before the Horse; 2.9 Differences in Self- and Other-Perception; 2.10 Problem Situations and Therapeutic Strategies; 2.11 Resource-Oriented Strategies and Phases of Therapy; 2.12 Risks and Side Effects of Resource-Oriented Strategies; 3 Resource-Activating Structural Interventions; 3.1 LifeOverview; 3.2 Genograms and Ecograms from a Resource Perspective; 3.3 Miracle Questions and Target Visions; 3.4 Other People as Resource Models; 3.5 Activating Coping Resources Through Role Reversal; 3.6 Planning Pleasure; 3.7 Resource Activation Through Imaginative Procedures; 3.8 Resource Diary; 3.9 Differentiating Between Positive Feelings and Moods; 3.10 Reframing and Normalization; Appendix; Worksheet 1: Resource Priming; Worksheet 2: Resource-Oriented Dialog Strategies - Possible Questions; Worksheet 3: Differentiating Positive Feelings and Moods; References; Index.